S Railroad Avenue, Staten Island: Grade C+ · 311 & City Data
Grade C+, 50 out of 100. How does S Railroad Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 50 out of 100.
Calm 42, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 65, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts S Railroad Avenue in the bottom 49% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (70) and tree cover (82). Traffic safety (12) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on South Railroad Avenue, with 33 reports. The whole 311 file on South Railroad Avenue holds 120 reports, and illegal parking is 28% of it. Missed collection is the next most-filed at 22 reports, then street condition at 19. The file runs across 37 distinct 311 categories in all. About 54 reports per 100 homes sit on South Railroad Avenue, counting every category.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on South Railroad Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. 158 residential buildings on South Railroad Avenue hold the 221 homes on file, 10 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Since 2021, 21 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among smaller avenues, South Railroad Avenue ranks 57 on quietness and 33 on cleanliness. A 33 on cleanliness places South Railroad Avenue in the weaker half of smaller avenues. Measured against smaller avenues, parking sits at 37 and infrastructure at 36. Transit ranks 76 and food nearby 35, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on South Railroad Avenue, at 82. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
Housing is where South Railroad Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 63.
None of the 221 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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S Railroad Avenue runs through New Dorp, Oakwood and Grasmere, 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).