Union Avenue, Staten Island: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 39 out of 100. How does Union Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 39 out of 100.
Calm 42, 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 Union Avenue in the bottom 16% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (78) and tree cover (62). Transit (20) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water leads the 311 file on Union Avenue, with 31 reports. The whole 311 file on Union Avenue holds 78 reports, and heat and hot water is 40% of it. After that the file runs to residential noise (21 reports) and flooring and stairs (16). Reports on Union Avenue span 42 distinct 311 categories. About 28 reports per 100 homes sit on Union Avenue, counting every category.
HPD has cited 3 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 1 per 100 homes on file. 158 residential buildings on Union Avenue hold the 277 homes on file, 4 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Reported crashes on Union Avenue have injured 5 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, parking ranks 78 among smaller avenues and housing ranks 30. That 30 on housing puts Union Avenue in the weaker half of smaller avenues. The card also puts traffic safety at 41 and cleanliness at 31 among smaller avenues. Against every street in the city, Union Avenue ranks 35 on food nearby and 20 on transit. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 62. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band Union Avenue is scored inside.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 78.
None of the 277 homes on file 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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Union Avenue runs through Mariner's Harbor, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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