Barlow Avenue, Staten Island: Grade C · 311 & City Data
Grade C, 43 out of 100. How does Barlow Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 43 out of 100.
Calm 43, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 43, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts Barlow Avenue in the bottom 26% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (98) and tree cover (88). Housing (18) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Barlow Avenue, with 49 reports. Across every category, 173 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 28% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to damaged tree (16 reports) and missed collection (16). The file runs across 45 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, Barlow Avenue carries roughly 52 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on Barlow Avenue carries 6 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 2 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Barlow Avenue is paint and lead, at 18 violations. 249 residential buildings on Barlow Avenue hold the 334 homes on file, 1 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
NYPD records 15 people injured in crashes on Barlow Avenue since 2021.
Against smaller avenues, parking comes in at 45, with traffic safety at 20. A 20 on traffic safety places Barlow Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Infrastructure ranks 38 on the same scale, with quietness at 30. Against every street in the city, Barlow Avenue ranks 35 on transit and 27 on food nearby. Barlow Avenue ranks 88 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
Cleanliness is where Barlow Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 98.
Of the 334 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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Barlow Avenue runs through Great Kills, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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