Shiel Avenue, Staten Island: Grade C+ · 311 & City Data
Grade C+, 58 out of 100. How does Shiel Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 58 out of 100.
Calm 75, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 26, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts Shiel Avenue in the top 28% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (88) and tree cover (79). Food nearby (12) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
In all, 15 distinct 311 categories are represented on Shiel Avenue.
The HPD file on Shiel Avenue holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. PLUTO counts 71 residential buildings and 82 homes on Shiel Avenue, with 0 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
NYPD records no injury from a reported crash on Shiel Avenue since 2021.
Among smaller avenues, Shiel Avenue ranks 85 on infrastructure and 24 on parking. Shiel Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues on parking. The card also puts quietness at 82 and housing at 63 among smaller avenues. Transit ranks 14 and food nearby 12, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 79. Shiel Avenue is ranked against about 1,360 smaller avenues citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Shiel Avenue is traffic safety, at 85.
Of the 82 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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Shiel Avenue runs through Arden Heights, 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).