Shale Street, Staten Island: Grade C+ · 311 & City Data
Grade C+, 51 out of 100. How does Shale Street in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 51 out of 100.
Calm 70, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 16, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but little within a walk.
That puts Shale Street in the top 48% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (87) and tree cover (31). Transit (12) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
In all, 9 distinct 311 categories are represented on Shale Street.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on Shale Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. 50 residential buildings on Shale Street hold the 60 homes on file, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Since 2021, reported crashes on Shale Street have injured no one.
Among quiet residential streets, Shale Street ranks 74 on quietness and 42 on parking. That 42 on parking puts Shale Street in the weaker half of quiet residential streets. Infrastructure ranks 68 on the same scale, with housing at 58. Against every street in the city, Shale Street ranks 12 on transit and 12 on food nearby. Shale Street ranks 31 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,970 quiet residential streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Shale Street is traffic safety, at 77.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 60 on Shale Street.
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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Shale Street 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).