Shotwell Avenue, Staten Island: Grade B · 311 & City Data
Grade B, 66 out of 100. How does Shotwell Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 66 out of 100.
Calm 89, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 24, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts Shotwell Avenue in the top 12% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (100) and tree cover (77). Transit (9) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
More 311 reports on Shotwell Avenue name snow or ice than any other category, 12 of them. Obstruction is the next most-filed, with 10 reports. In all, 24 distinct 311 categories are represented on Shotwell Avenue.
The HPD file on Shotwell Avenue holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. 104 residential buildings on Shotwell Avenue hold the 186 homes on file, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Since 2021, reported crashes on Shotwell Avenue have injured no one.
Against smaller avenues, housing comes in at 98, with infrastructure at 67. Shotwell Avenue sits in the stronger half of smaller avenues on infrastructure. Traffic safety ranks 97 on the same scale, with parking at 88. Food nearby ranks 12 and transit 9, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Shotwell Avenue ranks 77 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
Quietness is where Shotwell Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 100.
Of the 186 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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Shotwell 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).