Tompkins Avenue, Staten Island: Grade D · 311 & City Data
Grade D, 32 out of 100. How does Tompkins Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 32 out of 100.
Calm 24, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 47, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts Tompkins Avenue in the bottom 6% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (56) and tree cover (79). Cleanliness (11) is the weak spot.
On the record
The crash record is the heaviest thing on file for Tompkins Avenue. Since 2021, reported crashes on Tompkins Avenue have injured 33 people, and traffic safety ranks 13 among smaller avenues. Complaints are rare by comparison. Illegal parking is the most-filed, with 69 reports. Across every category, 266 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 26% of them name illegal parking. Street condition is the next most-filed at 18 reports, then commercial noise at 18. Reports on Tompkins Avenue span 55 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 251 homes on file, that is about 106 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 14 Class C violations on Tompkins Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 6 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Tompkins Avenue is pests, at 29 violations. Behind it the file holds doors (11 violations) and windows (10). City housing records put 251 homes in 146 residential buildings on Tompkins Avenue, 12 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Against smaller avenues, parking comes in at 41, with traffic safety at 13. A 13 on traffic safety places Tompkins Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. The card also puts housing at 30 and quietness at 21 among smaller avenues. Transit ranks 47 and food nearby 27, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tompkins Avenue ranks 79 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 Tompkins Avenue is infrastructure, at 56.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 251 on Tompkins 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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Tompkins Avenue runs through Rosebank, Tompkinsville and Grasmere, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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