Balsam Place, Staten Island: Grade C+ · 311 & City Data
Grade C+, 50 out of 100. How does Balsam Place in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 50 out of 100.
Calm 62, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 28, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but little within a walk.
That puts Balsam Place in the bottom 49% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (87) and tree cover (62). Transit (12) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
The file runs across 12 distinct 311 categories in all.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on Balsam Place, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. City housing records put 59 homes in 43 residential buildings on Balsam Place, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
NYPD records no injury from a reported crash on Balsam Place since 2021.
Among quiet residential streets, Balsam Place ranks 67 on cleanliness and 25 on quietness. That 25 on quietness puts Balsam Place in the weaker half of quiet residential streets. The card also puts infrastructure at 67 and parking at 48 among quiet residential streets. Food nearby ranks 31 and transit 12, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Balsam Place, at 62. Balsam Place is ranked against about 1,970 quiet residential streets citywide.
Traffic safety is where Balsam Place ranks best against quiet residential streets, at 77.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 59 on Balsam Place.
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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Balsam Place runs through Arden Heights, 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).