Vernon Avenue, Staten Island: Grade C+ · 311 & City Data

Grade C+, 53 out of 100. How does Vernon Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade C+, livability 53 out of 100.

Calm 62, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 37, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.

That puts Vernon Avenue in the top 41% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on quietness (97) and tree cover (73). Cleanliness (10) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.

On the record

Reports on Vernon Avenue span 20 distinct 311 categories.

The HPD file on Vernon Avenue holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. 52 residential buildings on Vernon Avenue hold the 84 homes on file, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.

Among smaller avenues, Vernon Avenue ranks 89 on housing and 28 on infrastructure. Vernon Avenue sits in the weaker half of smaller avenues on infrastructure. Measured against smaller avenues, parking sits at 63 and traffic safety at 47. The citywide frame puts transit at 37 and food nearby at 12. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 73. Vernon Avenue is ranked against about 1,360 smaller avenues citywide.

Quietness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 97.

The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 84 on Vernon Avenue.

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.

Nearest streets in Staten Island

Vernon Avenue runs through Annadale, 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).

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