Sherman Avenue, Staten Island: Grade C+ · 311 & City Data
Grade C+, 57 out of 100. How does Sherman Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 57 out of 100.
Calm 52, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 65, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Sherman Avenue in the top 30% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (93) and food nearby (72). Infrastructure (15) is the weak spot.
On the record
Blocked driveway is the most-filed complaint on Sherman Avenue, with 12 reports. Across every category, 51 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 24% of them name blocked driveway. Abandoned vehicle is the next most-filed, with 10 reports. In all, 21 distinct 311 categories are represented on Sherman Avenue. About 50 reports per 100 homes sit on Sherman Avenue, counting every category.
The HPD file on Sherman Avenue holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. 44 residential buildings on Sherman Avenue hold the 103 homes on file, 7 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 2.3 homes to a building.
No one has been injured in a reported crash here since 2021.
Among smaller avenues, Sherman Avenue ranks 73 on parking and 16 on cleanliness. Sherman Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues on cleanliness. Measured against smaller avenues, quietness sits at 39 and housing at 36. Against every street in the city, Sherman Avenue ranks 67 on transit and 50 on tree cover. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 72. Sherman Avenue is ranked against about 1,360 smaller avenues citywide.
Traffic safety is where Sherman Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 93.
Of the 103 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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Sherman Avenue runs through St. George, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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