Steele Avenue, Staten Island: Grade C · 311 & City Data

Grade C, 46 out of 100. How does Steele Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade C, livability 46 out of 100.

Calm 34, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 67, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but a lot within a walk.

That puts Steele Avenue in the bottom 35% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on housing (64) and transit (83). Traffic safety (14) is the weak spot.

On the record

Reports on Steele Avenue span 10 distinct 311 categories.

No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on Steele Avenue. The housing file lists 22 residential buildings on Steele Avenue holding 31 homes, with 0 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.

Against smaller avenues, cleanliness comes in at 50, with parking at 22. That 22 on parking puts Steele Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. The card also puts quietness at 41 and infrastructure at 37 among smaller avenues. Food nearby ranks 65 and tree cover 30, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on Steele Avenue, at 83. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.

The strongest band-ranked measure on Steele Avenue is housing, at 64.

The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 31 on Steele Avenue.

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.

Nearest streets in Staten Island

Steele Avenue runs through New Dorp, 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).

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