Poets Cir, Staten Island: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data

Grade D, 37 out of 100. How does Poets Cir in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade D, livability 37 out of 100.

Calm 42, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 27, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, and little within a walk.

That puts Poets Cir in the bottom 12% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on housing (59) and transit (39). Infrastructure (9) is the weak spot.

On the record

No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on Poets Circle. The housing file lists 20 residential buildings on Poets Circle holding 20 homes, with 0 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.

No one has been injured in a reported crash here since 2021.

Of the ten measures on the card, quietness ranks 46 among quiet residential streets and cleanliness ranks 31. A 31 on cleanliness places Poets Circle in the weaker half of quiet residential streets. Measured against quiet residential streets, traffic safety sits at 42 and parking at 32. Against every street in the city, Poets Circle ranks 18 on food nearby and 12 on tree cover. Poets Circle ranks 39 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. About 1,970 quiet residential streets make up the band Poets Circle is scored inside.

Housing is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 59.

Scores are built from 311 complaints, HPD violations, NYPD crash records, NYPD felony complaint records, MTA stop locations, DOHMH food permits, and the street tree census, divided by the homes and businesses on the street, updated weekly. Read the scoring method or the data sources.

Nearest streets in Staten Island

Poets Cir runs through Arden Heights, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.

Every scored street in Staten Island, the citywide rankings of all 5,700+ graded streets, or Brooklyn vs Staten Island: How the Two Boroughs Score (2026 Data).

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