Van Pelt Avenue, Staten Island: Grade D · 311 & City Data
Grade D, 35 out of 100. How does Van Pelt Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 35 out of 100.
Calm 36, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 34, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts Van Pelt Avenue in the bottom 9% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (80) and tree cover (54). Quietness (23) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Van Pelt Avenue name residential noise than any other category, 16 of them, and the block ranks in the louder half of smaller avenues. Residential noise accounts for 13% of the 124 reports on file here. Illegal parking is the next most-filed, with 12 reports. Reports on Van Pelt Avenue span 32 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 48 reports for every 100 homes on Van Pelt Avenue.
The HPD file on Van Pelt Avenue carries 3 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 1 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Van Pelt Avenue, 15 violations of it. PLUTO counts 174 residential buildings and 258 homes on Van Pelt Avenue, with 3 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
NYPD records 11 people injured in crashes on Van Pelt Avenue since 2021.
Against smaller avenues, parking comes in at 69, with cleanliness at 27. A 27 on cleanliness places Van Pelt Avenue in the weaker half of smaller avenues. Measured against smaller avenues, traffic safety sits at 28 and housing at 28. Against every street in the city, Van Pelt Avenue ranks 35 on food nearby and 25 on transit. Van Pelt Avenue ranks 54 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
Infrastructure is where Van Pelt Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 80.
None of the 258 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 Pelt Avenue runs through Mariner's Harbor, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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