Waters Avenue, Staten Island: Grade D · 311 & City Data
Grade D, 33 out of 100. How does Waters Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 33 out of 100.
Calm 39, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 21, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts Waters Avenue in the bottom 7% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (98) and tree cover (32). Cleanliness (1) is the weak spot.
On the record
Reports on Waters Avenue span 15 distinct 311 categories.
No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on Waters Avenue. PLUTO counts 46 residential buildings and 51 homes on Waters Avenue, with 0 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
NYPD records 5 people injured in crashes on Waters Avenue since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, housing ranks 49 among smaller avenues and traffic safety ranks 8. An 8 on traffic safety places Waters Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. The card also puts infrastructure at 46 and quietness at 36 among smaller avenues. Against every street in the city, Waters Avenue ranks 22 on transit and 12 on food nearby. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Waters Avenue, at 32. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band Waters Avenue is scored inside.
Parking is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 98.
None of the 51 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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Waters Avenue runs through Westerleigh, 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).