Townsend Avenue, Staten Island: Grade C · 311 & City Data
Grade C, 40 out of 100. How does Townsend Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 40 out of 100.
Calm 29, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 61, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Townsend Avenue in the bottom 18% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (81) and transit (81). Quietness (5) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise is the most-filed complaint on Townsend Avenue, with 146 reports, and the block ranks in the louder half of smaller avenues. Illegal parking is the next most-filed at 26 reports, then blocked driveway at 11. In all, 30 distinct 311 categories are represented on Townsend Avenue. Set against the 109 homes on file, that is about 106 reports per 100 homes.
Townsend Avenue carries 8 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 7 per 100 homes on file. 83 residential buildings on Townsend Avenue hold the 109 homes on file, 2 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 50 among smaller avenues and housing ranks 13. A 13 on housing places Townsend Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. The card also puts traffic safety at 25 and parking at 19 among smaller avenues. Tree cover ranks 57 and food nearby 31, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Townsend Avenue ranks 81 on transit, 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 Townsend Avenue is cleanliness, at 81.
Of the 109 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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Townsend Avenue runs through Tompkinsville, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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