Watson Avenue, Staten Island: Grade C · 311 & City Data
Grade C, 40 out of 100. How does Watson Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 40 out of 100.
Calm 53, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 15, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts Watson Avenue in the bottom 18% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (63) and food nearby (31). Transit (6) is the weak spot.
On the record
No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on Watson Avenue. PLUTO counts 23 residential buildings and 23 homes on Watson Avenue, with 0 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
NYPD records no injury from a reported crash on Watson Avenue since 2021.
Among smaller avenues, Watson Avenue ranks 57 on housing and 42 on infrastructure. Watson Avenue sits in the weaker half of smaller avenues on infrastructure. Quietness ranks 50 on the same scale, with cleanliness at 46. Against every street in the city, Watson Avenue ranks 15 on tree cover and 6 on transit. Watson Avenue ranks 31 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band Watson Avenue is scored inside.
Traffic safety is where Watson Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 58.
None of the 23 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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Watson Avenue runs through New Springville, 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).