Potter Avenue, Staten Island: Grade C+ · 311 & City Data
Grade C+, 50 out of 100. How does Potter Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 50 out of 100.
Calm 70, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 13, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts Potter Avenue in the bottom 49% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (85) and tree cover (27). Transit (1) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
Reports on Potter Avenue span 25 distinct 311 categories.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on Potter Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. PLUTO counts 75 residential buildings and 83 homes on Potter Avenue, with 0 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
No one has been injured in a reported crash here since 2021.
Among smaller avenues, Potter Avenue ranks 83 on quietness and 50 on infrastructure. A 50 on infrastructure places Potter Avenue in the stronger half of smaller avenues. Cleanliness ranks 74 on the same scale, with housing at 63. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 23 and transit at 1. Potter Avenue ranks 27 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band Potter Avenue is scored inside.
Traffic safety is where Potter Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 85.
Of the 83 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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Potter Avenue runs through Westerleigh, 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).