Shafter Avenue, Staten Island: Grade C+ · 311 & City Data
Grade C+, 51 out of 100. How does Shafter Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 51 out of 100.
Calm 50, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 52, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Shafter Avenue in the top 48% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (76) and transit (59). Cleanliness (1) is the weak spot.
On the record
In all, 8 distinct 311 categories are represented on Shafter Avenue.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on Shafter Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. 36 residential buildings on Shafter Avenue hold the 37 homes on file, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Since 2021, reported crashes on Shafter Avenue have injured no one.
Of the ten measures on the card, housing ranks 70 among smaller avenues and quietness ranks 13. Shafter Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues on quietness. The card also puts traffic safety at 67 and infrastructure at 61 among smaller avenues. Food nearby ranks 48 and tree cover 38, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Shafter Avenue ranks 59 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band Shafter Avenue is scored inside.
Parking is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 76.
Of the 37 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.
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Shafter Avenue runs through Great Kills, 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).