{"id":369452,"date":"2026-10-10T01:04:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T01:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/369452\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T01:04:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T01:04:19","slug":"staten-island-made-more-than-12000-311-calls-in-september-here-are-the-most-common-complaints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/369452\/","title":{"rendered":"Staten Island made more than 12,000 311 calls in September: Here are the most common complaints"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"Z24NV7OCUFBT7LMOJCOBURN5RU\">STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 Staten Island residents have filed more than 12,000 complaints to New York City in September, and some complaints are more common than others.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"TELTBN6BPNCIRKDI5N7RUV6KZE\">The Staten Island Advance\/SILive.com analyzed publicly available 311 data from New York City\u2019s Open Data portal to determine the most frequent complaints lodged by borough residents in September.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"NLPQ7PN2CZEN3HVVTYQS6EBWMI\">The dataset, which includes all 311 complaints filed on Staten Island from Sept. 1 through Sept. 30, showed that borough residents filed 12,364 complaints. That\u2019s about 412 complaints each day during September.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"35573OGGFZGXDMK66GPVTXI2MI\">Complaints poured in from all across the borough, with thousands recorded in each ZIP code. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"GDSFADAAPBHYXA34C76VVX6FFY\">Here were the top complaints in September filed by Staten Islanders, according to the data.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"5MCER6UEVZFMNFIF2JGAHP3FBA\">The most common complaint was for illegal parking, which isn\u2019t a surprise as the issue has long plagued Staten Island, the most car-dependent borough. There were 1,412 complaints regarding illegal parking in September. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"6SLFAZ3SANBHDO5ULYRBLPKWXI\">It\u2019s followed by the second most common issue, which was residential noise, with 942 complaints filed. The third most <a href=\"https:\/\/www.silive.com\/news\/2026\/09\/reports-of-streetlights-out-across-staten-island-311-complaints-surge-as-dot-works-through-repairs.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.silive.com\/news\/2026\/09\/reports-of-streetlights-out-across-staten-island-311-complaints-surge-as-dot-works-through-repairs.html\">common issue was streetlight conditions,<\/a> with 749 complaints, followed by damaged trees, with 643 complaints. The issue rounding out the top five most common complaints was related to street conditions, which had 484 calls.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"KEYPZKJCMJE5VNUN5OE6K2X4JA\">Here\u2019s a look at the 10 most common 311 complaints filed on Staten Island in September 2026, according to data.<\/p>\n<p>1) Illegal parking<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"4BH2ICAJK5D6ZHMI6LZILXMPKQ\">1,412 complaints<\/p>\n<p>2) Noise &#8211; residential<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"B7Y5LZ7KP5CPZEVS5Q525OHKTE\">942 complaints<\/p>\n<p>3) Poor street light condition<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"S75VTFERERAYJMY6P2DHFY7NXU\">749 complaints<\/p>\n<p>4) Damaged trees<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"FVYY73P6QZEWJNL4PR7EFHX3ZI\">643 complaints<\/p>\n<p>5) Poor street condition<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"3ECJO2XXONDH5NYJKQJ4PJPRLI\">484 complaints<\/p>\n<p>6) Missed trash collection<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"CM5F2UR3OFHIXNL2RHUCV35RAA\">476 complaints<\/p>\n<p>7) Abandoned vehicle<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"V6NZCBLJFZFTZLCOUMZYVTZU6A\">449 complaints<\/p>\n<p>8) Blocked driveway<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"U4BANX2FBVCKDKSAOQ2564CECM\">442 complaints<\/p>\n<p>9) Overgrown tree\/branches<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"MCYCGRICTZD2RILBOQIK6ERCWE\">404 complaints<\/p>\n<p>10) Dirty conditions<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"G7JQBUJDBVHE3CMBFV4ZLHQKLA\">364 complaints<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 Staten Island residents have filed more than 12,000 complaints to New York City in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369453,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-369452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}