Roswell Avenue, Staten Island: Grade C+ · 311 & City Data

Grade C+, 50 out of 100. How does Roswell Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade C+, livability 50 out of 100.

Calm 61, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 30, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.

That puts Roswell Avenue in the bottom 49% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on street crime (89) and food nearby (42). Cleanliness (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 13 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 64 homes on file, that is about 53 reports per 100 homes.

No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on Roswell Avenue. 56 residential buildings on Roswell Avenue hold the 64 homes on file, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.

Since 2021, reported crashes on Roswell Avenue have injured no one.

Against smaller avenues, infrastructure comes in at 67, with quietness at 46. That 46 on quietness puts Roswell Avenue in the weaker half of smaller avenues. The card also puts housing at 63 and parking at 55 among smaller avenues. Against every street in the city, Roswell Avenue ranks 39 on tree cover and 19 on transit. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Roswell Avenue, at 42. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.

Traffic safety is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 86.

Of the 64 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.

Nearest streets in Staten Island

Roswell Avenue runs through New Springville, 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).

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