Watkins Avenue, Staten Island: Grade C+ · 311 & City Data
Grade C+, 50 out of 100. How does Watkins Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 50 out of 100.
Calm 59, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 34, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts Watkins Avenue in the bottom 49% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (98) and transit (44). Cleanliness (5) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal dumping leads the 311 file on Watkins Avenue, with 21 reports, and cleanliness ranks 5 among smaller avenues. The file runs across 13 distinct 311 categories in all.
No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on Watkins Avenue. PLUTO counts 47 residential buildings and 54 homes on Watkins Avenue, with 0 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
Among smaller avenues, Watkins Avenue ranks 93 on quietness and 24 on traffic safety. Watkins Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues on traffic safety. Housing ranks 79 on the same scale, with infrastructure at 61. Tree cover ranks 43 and food nearby 12, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on Watkins Avenue, at 44. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band Watkins Avenue is scored inside.
Parking is where Watkins Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 98.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 54 on Watkins 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.
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).