Surf Avenue, Staten Island: Grade F · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade F, 29 out of 100. How does Surf Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade F, livability 29 out of 100.
Calm 39, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 11, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts Surf Avenue in the bottom 3% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (71) and tree cover (26). Transit (1) is the weak spot.
On the record
In all, 9 distinct 311 categories are represented on Surf Avenue.
No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on Surf Avenue. PLUTO counts 7 residential buildings and 20 homes on Surf Avenue, with 0 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 2.9 homes to a building.
Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 62 among smaller avenues and quietness ranks 7. That 7 on quietness puts Surf Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Housing ranks 52 on the same scale, with traffic safety at 19. Food nearby ranks 18 and transit 1, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Surf Avenue ranks 26 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Surf Avenue is parking, at 71.
Of the 20 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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Surf Avenue runs through Tottenville, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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