Richmond Avenue, Staten Island: Grade C · 311 & City Data
Grade C, 41 out of 100. How does Richmond Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 41 out of 100.
Calm 33, ranked against major corridors. Access 56, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most major corridors, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Richmond Avenue in the bottom 21% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (71) and tree cover (100). Cleanliness (1) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Richmond Avenue name illegal posting than any other category, 206 of them, and cleanliness ranks 1 among major corridors. Across every category, 952 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 22% of them name illegal posting. Non-emergency police matter is the next most-filed at 187 reports, then dirty condition at 176. In all, 95 distinct 311 categories are represented on Richmond Avenue. The 311 file works out to about 128 reports for every 100 homes on Richmond Avenue.
Richmond Avenue carries 39 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 5 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is doors, with 38 violations on file. Structure accounts for 34 more, and paint and lead for 29. 301 residential buildings on Richmond Avenue hold the 743 homes on file, 4 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 2.5 homes to a building.
NYPD records 485 people injured in crashes on Richmond Avenue since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, parking ranks 64 among major corridors and infrastructure ranks 8. An 8 on infrastructure places Richmond Avenue in the weakest quarter of major corridors. The card also puts housing at 29 and traffic safety at 8 among major corridors. Against every street in the city, Richmond Avenue ranks 53 on food nearby and 40 on transit. Richmond Avenue ranks 100 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 190 major corridors.
Quietness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 71.
None of the 743 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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Richmond Avenue runs through New Springville, Great Kills and Mariner's Harbor, 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).