Shirley Avenue, Staten Island: Grade C+ · 311 & City Data
Grade C+, 51 out of 100. How does Shirley Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 51 out of 100.
Calm 60, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 33, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts Shirley Avenue in the top 48% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (90) and tree cover (82). Infrastructure (11) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
In all, 16 distinct 311 categories are represented on Shirley Avenue.
No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on Shirley Avenue. City housing records put 71 homes in 69 residential buildings on Shirley Avenue, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Against smaller avenues, housing comes in at 86, with traffic safety at 16. Shirley Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues on traffic safety. Quietness ranks 79 on the same scale, with cleanliness at 70. Against every street in the city, Shirley Avenue ranks 25 on transit and 12 on food nearby. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Shirley Avenue, at 82. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band Shirley Avenue is scored inside.
Parking is where Shirley Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 90.
Of the 71 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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Shirley Avenue runs through Great Kills and Annadale, 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).