Rainbow Avenue, Staten Island: Grade C+ · 311 & City Data
Grade C+, 48 out of 100. How does Rainbow Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 48 out of 100.
Calm 56, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 33, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts Rainbow Avenue in the bottom 42% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (84) and food nearby (39). Parking (13) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Rainbow Avenue name illegal parking than any other category, 18 of them, and parking ranks 13 among smaller avenues. Reports on Rainbow Avenue span 6 distinct 311 categories.
No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on Rainbow Avenue. City housing records put 28 homes in 26 residential buildings on Rainbow Avenue, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
NYPD records no injury from a reported crash on Rainbow Avenue since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, traffic safety ranks 62 among smaller avenues and infrastructure ranks 15. A 15 on infrastructure places Rainbow Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. The card also puts housing at 61 and cleanliness at 49 among smaller avenues. Against every street in the city, Rainbow Avenue ranks 32 on transit and 24 on tree cover. Rainbow Avenue ranks 39 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
Quietness is where Rainbow Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 84.
Of the 28 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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Rainbow Avenue runs through Port Richmond, 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).