Scott Avenue, Staten Island: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data

Grade C, 46 out of 100. How does Scott Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade C, livability 46 out of 100.

Calm 55, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 28, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.

That puts Scott Avenue in the bottom 35% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on housing (88) and transit (40). Cleanliness (9) is the weak spot.

On the record

Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Scott Avenue, with 10 reports, and cleanliness ranks 9 among smaller avenues. Reports on Scott Avenue span 14 distinct 311 categories.

The HPD file on Scott Avenue holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. City housing records put 80 homes in 62 residential buildings on Scott Avenue, 3 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.

Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 85 among smaller avenues and quietness ranks 38. A 38 on quietness places Scott Avenue in the weaker half of smaller avenues. The card also puts traffic safety at 84 and parking at 47 among smaller avenues. Tree cover ranks 23 and food nearby 12, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 40. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.

Housing is where Scott Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 88.

Of the 80 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

Scott Avenue runs through 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).

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