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

Grade C+, 49 out of 100. How does Washington Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade C+, livability 49 out of 100.

Calm 62, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 26, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.

That puts Washington Avenue in the bottom 45% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on housing (92) and tree cover (63). Food nearby (12) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.

On the record

Reports on Washington Avenue span 18 distinct 311 categories.

HPD has cited no Class C violation on Washington Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. The housing file lists 68 residential buildings on Washington Avenue holding 94 homes, with 0 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.

Against smaller avenues, cleanliness comes in at 78, with quietness at 28. That 28 on quietness puts Washington Avenue in the weaker half of smaller avenues. The card also puts parking at 59 and infrastructure at 49 among smaller avenues. Against every street in the city, Washington Avenue ranks 19 on transit and 12 on food nearby. Washington Avenue ranks 63 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.

Housing is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 92.

Of the 94 homes on file, none 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.

Nearest streets in Staten Island

Washington 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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