Vanderbilt Avenue, Staten Island: Grade F · 311 & City Data
Grade F, 28 out of 100. How does Vanderbilt Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade F, livability 28 out of 100.
Calm 19, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 45, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts Vanderbilt Avenue in the bottom 3% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (40) and tree cover (82). Traffic safety (5) is the weak spot.
On the record
NYPD collision records are what stand out on Vanderbilt Avenue. Reported crashes here have injured 38 people since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 5 among smaller avenues. Complaints are rare by comparison. Residential noise is the most-filed, with 72 reports. The whole 311 file on Vanderbilt Avenue holds 226 reports, and residential noise is 32% of it. After that the file runs to blocked driveway (22 reports) and heat and hot water (16). In all, 55 distinct 311 categories are represented on Vanderbilt Avenue. The 311 file works out to about 109 reports for every 100 homes on Vanderbilt Avenue.
HPD has cited 21 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 10 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Vanderbilt Avenue is pests, at 27 violations. Behind it the file holds doors, at 20 violations. City housing records put 208 homes in 119 residential buildings on Vanderbilt Avenue, 5 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 34 among smaller avenues and housing ranks 8. Vanderbilt Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues on housing. The card also puts quietness at 27 and cleanliness at 12 among smaller avenues. Transit ranks 46 and food nearby 18, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Vanderbilt Avenue, at 82. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band Vanderbilt Avenue is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Vanderbilt Avenue is parking, at 40.
None of the 208 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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Vanderbilt Avenue runs through Tompkinsville, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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