York Avenue, Staten Island: Grade F · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade F, 29 out of 100. How does York Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade F, livability 29 out of 100.
Calm 27, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 32, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts York Avenue in the bottom 3% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (74) and tree cover (55). Housing (6) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water leads the 311 file on York Avenue, with 79 reports. Across every category, 193 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 41% of them name heat and hot water. Unsanitary condition is the next most-filed at 21 reports, then plumbing at 17. Reports on York Avenue span 46 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, York Avenue carries roughly 91 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited 23 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 11 per 100 homes on file. Heat and hot water is what HPD writes up most on York Avenue, 21 violations of it. Structure accounts for 18 more, and pests for 16. City housing records put 211 homes in 111 residential buildings on York Avenue, 20 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
NYPD records 6 people injured in crashes on York Avenue since 2021.
Against smaller avenues, infrastructure comes in at 60, with quietness at 15. York Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues on quietness. Traffic safety ranks 33 on the same scale, with cleanliness at 21. Transit ranks 29 and food nearby 23, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. York Avenue ranks 55 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
The strongest band-ranked measure on York Avenue is parking, at 74.
Of the 211 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.
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York Avenue runs through St. George, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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