South Avenue, Staten Island: Grade F · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade F, 23 out of 100. How does South Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade F, livability 23 out of 100.
Calm 17, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 35, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts South Avenue in the bottom 1% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (28) and tree cover (95). Traffic safety (1) is the weak spot.
On the record
NYPD collision records are what stand out on South Avenue. Since 2021, reported crashes on South Avenue have injured 181 people, and traffic safety ranks 1 among smaller avenues. Divided by the homes on file, South Avenue carries roughly 115 reports per 100 of them.
South Avenue carries 11 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 3 per 100 homes on file. PLUTO counts 167 residential buildings and 411 homes on South Avenue, with 5 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 2.5 homes each.
Among smaller avenues, South Avenue ranks 25 on cleanliness and 16 on housing. That 16 on housing puts South Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Measured against smaller avenues, parking sits at 25 and quietness at 18. Against every street in the city, South Avenue ranks 31 on food nearby and 14 on transit. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on South Avenue, at 95. South Avenue is ranked against about 1,360 smaller avenues citywide.
Infrastructure is where South Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 26.
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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South Avenue runs through New Springville and Mariner's Harbor, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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