Buchanan Avenue, Staten Island: Grade C+ · 311 & City Data
Grade C+, 55 out of 100. How does Buchanan Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 55 out of 100.
Calm 69, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 30, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts Buchanan Avenue in the top 36% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (95) and tree cover (64). Food nearby (18) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
Blocked driveway is the most-filed complaint on Buchanan Avenue, with 15 reports. The whole 311 file on Buchanan Avenue holds 47 reports, and blocked driveway is 32% of it. Reports on Buchanan Avenue span 22 distinct 311 categories. About 34 reports per 100 homes sit on Buchanan Avenue, counting every category.
Inspectors have written 6 Class C violations on Buchanan Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 4 per 100 homes on file. PLUTO counts 92 residential buildings and 137 homes on Buchanan Avenue, with 0 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
No one has been injured in a reported crash here since 2021.
Among smaller avenues, Buchanan Avenue ranks 86 on cleanliness and 21 on housing. A 21 on housing places Buchanan Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Measured against smaller avenues, quietness sits at 82 and infrastructure at 34. Transit ranks 24 and food nearby 18, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 64. Buchanan Avenue is ranked against about 1,360 smaller avenues citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Buchanan Avenue is traffic safety, at 95.
None of the 137 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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Buchanan Avenue runs through Todt Hill, 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).