Portage Avenue, Staten Island: Grade F · 311 & City Data
Grade F, 28 out of 100. How does Portage Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade F, livability 28 out of 100.
Calm 33, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 20, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts Portage Avenue in the bottom 3% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (65) and tree cover (54). Transit (8) is the weak spot.
On the record
The file runs across 15 distinct 311 categories in all.
The HPD file on Portage Avenue holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. 43 residential buildings on Portage Avenue hold the 59 homes on file, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Against smaller avenues, housing comes in at 53, with traffic safety at 18. Portage Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues on traffic safety. Infrastructure ranks 34 on the same scale, with quietness at 25. Food nearby ranks 18 and transit 8, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Portage Avenue, at 54. Portage Avenue is ranked against about 1,360 smaller avenues citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Portage Avenue is cleanliness, at 65.
Of the 59 homes on file, none are rent-stabilized.
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.
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Portage Avenue runs through Todt Hill, 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).