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

Grade C+, 54 out of 100. How does Vista Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade C+, livability 54 out of 100.

Calm 61, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 41, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.

That puts Vista Avenue in the top 39% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on street crime (87) and transit (55). Infrastructure (8) is the weak spot.

On the record

Reports on Vista Avenue span 12 distinct 311 categories.

No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on Vista Avenue. The housing file lists 42 residential buildings on Vista Avenue holding 55 homes, with 1 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.

Since 2021, reported crashes on Vista Avenue have injured no one.

Against smaller avenues, parking comes in at 74, with cleanliness at 19. That 19 on cleanliness puts Vista Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Quietness ranks 69 on the same scale, with housing at 47. The citywide frame puts tree cover at 32 and food nearby at 23. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 55. Vista Avenue is ranked against about 1,360 smaller avenues citywide.

Traffic safety is where Vista Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 83.

The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 55 on Vista 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

Vista Avenue runs through Todt Hill, 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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