Purcell Street, Staten Island: Grade C+ · 311 & City Data
Grade C+, 58 out of 100. How does Purcell Street in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 58 out of 100.
Calm 74, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 27, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but little within a walk.
That puts Purcell Street in the top 28% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (97) and tree cover (32). Transit (22) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
Abandoned vehicle leads the 311 file on Purcell Street, with 21 reports. Illegal parking is the next most-filed, with 15 reports. In all, 13 distinct 311 categories are represented on Purcell Street.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on Purcell Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. PLUTO counts 52 residential buildings and 70 homes on Purcell Street, with 1 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
Since 2021, reported crashes on Purcell Street have injured no one.
Against quiet residential streets, traffic safety comes in at 82, with parking at 40. That 40 on parking puts Purcell Street in the weaker half of quiet residential streets. Measured against quiet residential streets, cleanliness sits at 73 and infrastructure at 45. Food nearby ranks 31 and transit 22, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Purcell Street, at 32. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,970 quiet residential streets.
Quietness is where Purcell Street ranks best against quiet residential streets, at 97.
Of the 70 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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Purcell Street runs through 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).