Preston Avenue, Staten Island: Grade C+ · 311 & City Data
Grade C+, 57 out of 100. How does Preston Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 57 out of 100.
Calm 63, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 46, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts Preston Avenue in the top 30% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (97) and tree cover (85). Food nearby (12) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
More 311 reports on Preston Avenue name damaged tree than any other category, 13 of them. Damaged tree accounts for 35% of the 37 reports on file here. In all, 15 distinct 311 categories are represented on Preston Avenue. About 30 reports per 100 homes sit on Preston Avenue, counting every category.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on Preston Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. City housing records put 124 homes in 117 residential buildings on Preston Avenue, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Against smaller avenues, parking comes in at 92, with infrastructure at 13. Preston Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues on infrastructure. The card also puts cleanliness at 88 and traffic safety at 45 among smaller avenues. Transit ranks 51 and food nearby 12, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Preston Avenue ranks 85 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band Preston Avenue is scored inside.
Housing is where Preston Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 97.
Of the 124 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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Preston Avenue runs through Great Kills, 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).