Taft Avenue, Staten Island NYC — Traffic Safety, Noise & Cleanliness Scores | 2026

Grade F, 30 out of 100. How does Taft Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade F, livability 30 out of 100.

Calm 29, 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 4% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on infrastructure (70) and transit (44); housing (5) is the weak spot.

On the record

Residential noise is the most-filed complaint on Taft Avenue, with 18 reports. HPD has cited 11 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 11 per 100 homes on file. On the other side, infrastructure ranks 70 among smaller avenues. None of the 104 homes on file are rent-stabilized.

Scores are built from 311 complaints, HPD violations, NYPD crash 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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