Sommer Avenue, Staten Island: Grade B · 311 & City Data
Grade B, 65 out of 100. How does Sommer Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 65 out of 100.
Calm 79, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 38, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts Sommer Avenue in the top 14% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (95) and tree cover (47). Transit (33) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
Residential noise leads the 311 file on Sommer Avenue, with 18 reports. Behind it sits illegal parking, with 12 reports. Reports on Sommer Avenue span 22 distinct 311 categories.
No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on Sommer Avenue. 65 residential buildings on Sommer Avenue hold the 95 homes on file, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
No one has been injured in a reported crash here since 2021.
Against smaller avenues, traffic safety comes in at 92, with quietness at 51. Sommer Avenue sits in the stronger half of smaller avenues on quietness. Measured against smaller avenues, cleanliness sits at 83 and infrastructure at 57. Food nearby ranks 39 and transit 33, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Sommer Avenue ranks 47 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
Housing is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 95.
Of the 95 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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Sommer Avenue 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).