Taft Avenue, Staten Island: Grade F · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade F, 29 out of 100. How does Taft Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade F, livability 29 out of 100.
Calm 27, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 33, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts Taft Avenue in the bottom 3% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (67) and transit (44). Street crime (6) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise leads the 311 file on Taft Avenue, with 18 reports. The whole 311 file on Taft Avenue holds 67 reports, and residential noise is 27% of it. Heat and hot water follows with 12 reports, and unsanitary condition with 12. The file runs across 29 distinct 311 categories in all. About 64 reports per 100 homes sit on Taft Avenue, counting every category.
Inspectors have written 7 Class C violations on Taft Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 7 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Taft Avenue, 18 violations of it. PLUTO counts 53 residential buildings and 104 homes on Taft Avenue, with 8 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
Against smaller avenues, parking comes in at 67, with housing at 8. An 8 on housing places Taft Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Measured against smaller avenues, quietness sits at 26 and traffic safety at 24. Against every street in the city, Taft Avenue ranks 35 on tree cover and 12 on food nearby. Taft Avenue ranks 44 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 67.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 104 on Taft 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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Taft Avenue runs through St. George, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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