Purdy Avenue, Staten Island: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 36 out of 100. How does Purdy Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 36 out of 100.
Calm 35, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 39, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts Purdy Avenue in the bottom 10% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (81) and tree cover (55). Infrastructure (1) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Purdy Avenue name illegal parking than any other category, 15 of them. Across every category, 35 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 43% of them name illegal parking. Street condition is the next most-filed, with 13 reports. The file runs across 22 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, Purdy Avenue carries roughly 58 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on Purdy Avenue holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. 43 residential buildings on Purdy Avenue hold the 60 homes on file, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
NYPD records 12 people injured in crashes on Purdy Avenue since 2021.
Against smaller avenues, cleanliness comes in at 65, with traffic safety at 2. A 2 on traffic safety places Purdy Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Housing ranks 54 on the same scale, with quietness at 51. Against every street in the city, Purdy Avenue ranks 38 on transit and 31 on food nearby. Purdy Avenue ranks 55 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Purdy Avenue is parking, at 81.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 60 on Purdy Avenue.
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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Purdy Avenue runs through Westerleigh, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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