Retford Avenue, Staten Island: Grade B+ · 311 & City Data
Grade B+, 68 out of 100. How does Retford Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 68 out of 100.
Calm 80, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 46, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts Retford Avenue in the top 10% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (98) and tree cover (85). Food nearby (12) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
Overgrown tree and branches is the most-filed complaint on Retford Avenue, with 13 reports. Reports on Retford Avenue span 25 distinct 311 categories.
No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on Retford Avenue. City housing records put 173 homes in 166 residential buildings on Retford Avenue, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
No one has been injured in a reported crash here since 2021.
Against smaller avenues, traffic safety comes in at 97, with quietness at 49. That 49 on quietness puts Retford Avenue in the weaker half of smaller avenues. Cleanliness ranks 92 on the same scale, with infrastructure at 66. Against every street in the city, Retford Avenue ranks 50 on transit and 12 on food nearby. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Retford Avenue, at 85. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band Retford Avenue is scored inside.
Housing is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 98.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 173 on Retford 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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Retford Avenue runs through Great Kills, 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).