Blackford Avenue, Staten Island: Grade C · 311 & City Data
Grade C, 42 out of 100. How does Blackford Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 42 out of 100.
Calm 45, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 35, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts Blackford Avenue in the bottom 23% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (92) and food nearby (45). Housing (12) is the weak spot.
On the record
In all, 13 distinct 311 categories are represented on Blackford Avenue.
No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on Blackford Avenue. City housing records put 71 homes in 45 residential buildings on Blackford Avenue, 1 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Among smaller avenues, Blackford Avenue ranks 79 on parking and 18 on cleanliness. That 18 on cleanliness puts Blackford Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. The card also puts quietness at 48 and traffic safety at 44 among smaller avenues. Against every street in the city, Blackford Avenue ranks 36 on transit and 15 on tree cover. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Blackford Avenue, at 45. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Blackford Avenue is infrastructure, at 92.
None of the 71 homes on file 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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Blackford Avenue runs through Port Richmond, 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).