Prospect Avenue, Staten Island: Grade C+ · 311 & City Data
Grade C+, 50 out of 100. How does Prospect Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 50 out of 100.
Calm 60, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 30, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts Prospect Avenue in the bottom 49% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (89) and tree cover (64). Transit (19) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
Missed collection leads the 311 file on Prospect Avenue, with 11 reports. The file runs across 21 distinct 311 categories in all.
No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on Prospect Avenue. City housing records put 133 homes in 81 residential buildings on Prospect Avenue, 2 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Among smaller avenues, Prospect Avenue ranks 87 on cleanliness and 48 on housing. Prospect Avenue sits in the weaker half of smaller avenues on housing. Measured against smaller avenues, infrastructure sits at 66 and traffic safety at 55. Against every street in the city, Prospect Avenue ranks 27 on food nearby and 19 on transit. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 64. Prospect Avenue is ranked against about 1,360 smaller avenues citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Prospect Avenue is parking, at 89.
None of the 133 homes on file 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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Prospect Avenue runs through St. George and West New Brighton, 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).