Sterling Avenue, Staten Island: Grade B+ · 311 & City Data
Grade B+, 69 out of 100. How does Sterling Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 69 out of 100.
Calm 67, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 74, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Sterling Avenue in the top 8% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (77) and food nearby (87). Infrastructure (43) is the weak spot.
On the record
The file runs across 10 distinct 311 categories in all.
The HPD file on Sterling Avenue holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. City housing records put 47 homes in 43 residential buildings on Sterling Avenue, 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.
Among smaller avenues, Sterling Avenue ranks 73 on traffic safety and 57 on parking. Sterling Avenue sits in the stronger half of smaller avenues on parking. Quietness ranks 70 on the same scale, with cleanliness at 59. Against every street in the city, Sterling Avenue ranks 74 on transit and 53 on tree cover. Sterling Avenue ranks 87 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
Housing is where Sterling Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 75.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 47 on Sterling 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.
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Sterling 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).