Rensselaer Avenue, Staten Island: Grade C+ · 311 & City Data
Grade C+, 57 out of 100. How does Rensselaer Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 57 out of 100.
Calm 68, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 37, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts Rensselaer Avenue in the top 30% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (100) and tree cover (95). 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 Rensselaer Avenue name illegal parking than any other category, 21 of them. Across every category, 106 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 20% of them name illegal parking. Missed collection follows with 19 reports, and illegal fireworks with 17. Reports on Rensselaer Avenue span 32 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 25 reports for every 100 homes on Rensselaer Avenue.
No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on Rensselaer Avenue. 347 residential buildings on Rensselaer Avenue hold the 424 homes on file, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Since 2021, reported crashes on Rensselaer Avenue have injured no one.
Against smaller avenues, housing comes in at 100, with cleanliness at 13. That 13 on cleanliness puts Rensselaer Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. The card also puts parking at 79 and quietness at 40 among smaller avenues. Transit ranks 28 and food nearby 12, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Rensselaer Avenue, at 95. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band Rensselaer Avenue is scored inside.
Traffic safety is where Rensselaer Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 100.
None of the 424 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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Rensselaer Avenue runs through Annadale and Arden Heights, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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