Bard Avenue, Staten Island: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data

Grade C, 40 out of 100. How does Bard Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade C, livability 40 out of 100.

Calm 43, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 33, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.

That puts Bard Avenue in the bottom 18% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on parking (79) and tree cover (82). Transit (7) is the weak spot.

On the record

Street condition is the most-filed complaint on Bard Avenue, with 31 reports. The whole 311 file on Bard Avenue holds 158 reports, and street condition is 20% of it. After that the file runs to missed collection (31 reports) and illegal parking (23). The file runs across 45 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, Bard Avenue carries roughly 39 reports per 100 of them.

HPD has cited 2 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 0 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 21 violations on file. 252 residential buildings on Bard Avenue hold the 403 homes on file, 10 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.

NYPD records 11 people injured in crashes on Bard Avenue since 2021.

Among smaller avenues, Bard Avenue ranks 73 on quietness and 12 on infrastructure. A 12 on infrastructure places Bard Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. The card also puts housing at 39 and cleanliness at 28 among smaller avenues. Food nearby ranks 45 and transit 7, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 82. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band Bard Avenue is scored inside.

Parking is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 79.

The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 403 on Bard Avenue.

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.

Nearest streets in Staten Island

Bard Avenue runs through West New Brighton, 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).

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