Sunset Avenue, Staten Island: Grade D · 311 & City Data
Grade D, 37 out of 100. How does Sunset Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 37 out of 100.
Calm 43, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 25, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts Sunset Avenue in the bottom 12% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (77) and tree cover (56). Cleanliness (1) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Sunset Avenue, with 28 reports, and cleanliness ranks 1 among smaller avenues. Across every category, 33 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 85% of them name illegal parking. Reports on Sunset Avenue span 14 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, Sunset Avenue carries roughly 59 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on Sunset Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. PLUTO counts 38 residential buildings and 56 homes on Sunset Avenue, with 0 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
Since 2021, reported crashes on Sunset Avenue have injured no one.
Against smaller avenues, infrastructure comes in at 76, with quietness at 16. Sunset Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues on quietness. Housing ranks 52 on the same scale, with parking at 28. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 18 and transit at 17. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Sunset Avenue, at 56. Sunset Avenue is ranked against about 1,360 smaller avenues citywide.
Traffic safety is where Sunset Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 77.
None of the 56 homes on file 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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Sunset Avenue runs through Todt Hill, 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).