Van Cortlandt Avenue, Staten Island: Grade C+ · Street Data
Grade C+, 54 out of 100. How does Van Cortlandt Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 54 out of 100.
Calm 60, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 42, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts Van Cortlandt Avenue in the top 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (84) and tree cover (48). Street crime (30) is the weak spot.
On the record
The file runs across 18 distinct 311 categories in all.
No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on Van Cortlandt Avenue. PLUTO counts 47 residential buildings and 78 homes on Van Cortlandt Avenue, with 4 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
No one has been injured in a reported crash here since 2021.
Among smaller avenues, Van Cortlandt Avenue ranks 72 on cleanliness and 47 on infrastructure. A 47 on infrastructure places Van Cortlandt Avenue in the weaker half of smaller avenues. The card also puts housing at 61 and quietness at 51 among smaller avenues. Against every street in the city, Van Cortlandt Avenue ranks 42 on food nearby and 40 on transit. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 48. Van Cortlandt Avenue is ranked against about 1,360 smaller avenues citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Van Cortlandt Avenue is traffic safety, at 84.
None of the 78 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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Van Cortlandt Avenue runs through West New Brighton, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
Every scored street in Staten Island, the citywide rankings of all 5,700+ graded streets, or Brooklyn vs Staten Island: How the Two Boroughs Score (2026 Data).