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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Amid skyrocketing rent prices, an influx of migrants and an ongoing mental health crisis, advocates believe that homelessness in New York City has reached its highest point in nearly a century.
The Coalition for the Homeless, one of the city’s leading homeless advocacy organizations, estimates that there are approximately 350,000 homeless individuals living in New York City, including roughly 132,000 sleeping in city-run shelters, more than 200,000 temporarily staying with others and thousands more sleeping unsheltered on the streets, in encampments and within the city’s mass transit system.
The Staten Island Advance/SILive.com recently analyzed 311 complaint data from New York City’s Open Data portal to see which parts of the city are filing the most complaints regarding homeless individuals and encampments, offering insights into which areas the city should be targeting in its outreach efforts.
The data set includes all 311 complaints throughout the five boroughs from Jan. 1 through Oct. 14, the last date for which data was available at the time of the analysis.
Through Oct. 14, there had been 41,782 homeless complaints filed across New York City, with an overwhelming majority of them, more than 67%, coming from Manhattan.
Brooklyn has had the second-most homeless complaints so far this year with 6,652, followed by Queens with 5,048, the Bronx with 1,702 and Staten Island with 227. The remaining four complaints did not list a specific borough.
ON STATEN ISLAND
Further analysis showed that certain Staten Island neighborhoods have filed far more homeless complaints than others through mid-October, with the 10301 ZIP code, which includes St. George, Tompkinsville, New Brighton, Grymes Hill, Sunnyside, Randall Manor and part of Livingston, accounting for 88 complaints, which was more than twice as many as the next closest ZIP code.
Here’s a look at how many homeless complaints have been filed in each Staten Island ZIP code through the first nine-plus months of 2024.
10301 (St. George, Tompkinsville, New Brighton, Grymes Hill, Sunnyside, Randall Manor and part of Livingston)
88 homeless complaints
10302 (Port Richmond and Elm Park)
23 homeless complaints
10303 (Mariners Harbor)
4 homeless complaints
10304 (Clifton, Concord, Emerson Hill, Stapleton, Todt Hill and part of Dongan Hills)
7 homeless complaints
10305 (Arrochar, Fort Wadsworth, Grasmere, Ocean Breeze, Rosebank, Shore Acres, South Beach and part of Dongan Hills)
16 homeless complaints
10306 (Egbertville, Grant City, Midland Beach, New Dorp, New Dorp Beach, Oakwood, Richmond and part of Dongan Hills)
21 homeless complaints
10307 (Tottenville)
1 homeless complaint
10308 (Great Kills and Bay Terrace)
1 homeless complaint
10309 (Pleasant Plains, Richmond Valley, Prince’s Bay, Charleston, Rossville and Woodrow)
15 homeless complaints
10310 (West Brighton and part of Livingston)
6 homeless complaints
10312 (Annadale, Arden Heights, Eltingville, Greenridge and Huguenot)
11 homeless complaints
10314 (Bulls Head, Castleton Corners, Graniteville, Meiers Corners, New Springville, Travis, Westerleigh and Willowbrook)
31 homeless complaints