Rice Avenue, Staten Island: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 55 out of 100. How does Rice Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 55 out of 100.
Calm 77, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 13, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts Rice Avenue in the top 36% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (99) and tree cover (34). Transit (1) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
The file runs across 16 distinct 311 categories in all.
The HPD file on Rice Avenue holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. City housing records put 89 homes in 80 residential buildings on Rice Avenue, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Since 2021, reported crashes on Rice Avenue have injured no one.
Of the ten measures on the card, housing ranks 94 among smaller avenues and infrastructure ranks 16. Rice Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues on infrastructure. The card also puts parking at 92 and cleanliness at 81 among smaller avenues. Against every street in the city, Rice Avenue ranks 18 on food nearby and 1 on transit. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 34. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band Rice Avenue is scored inside.
Quietness is where Rice Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 99.
None of the 89 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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Rice Avenue runs through Westerleigh, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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