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

Grade C+, 54 out of 100. How does Buel Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade C+, livability 54 out of 100.

Calm 49, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 63, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and a lot within a walk.

That puts Buel Avenue in the top 39% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on cleanliness (96) and tree cover (81). Traffic safety (12) is the weak spot.

On the record

More 311 reports on Buel Avenue name illegal parking than any other category, 48 of them. The whole 311 file on Buel Avenue holds 105 reports, and illegal parking is 46% of it. Blocked driveway follows with 28 reports, and water system with 12. Reports on Buel Avenue span 34 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 42 reports for every 100 homes on Buel Avenue.

HPD has cited 1 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 0 per 100 homes on file. The housing file lists 164 residential buildings on Buel Avenue holding 248 homes, with 2 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.

Reported crashes on Buel Avenue have injured 19 people since 2021.

Against smaller avenues, quietness comes in at 69, with parking at 35. A 35 on parking places Buel Avenue in the weaker half of smaller avenues. The card also puts housing at 48 and infrastructure at 40 among smaller avenues. Against every street in the city, Buel Avenue ranks 59 on transit and 57 on food nearby. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Buel Avenue, at 81. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band Buel Avenue is scored inside.

Cleanliness is where Buel Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 96.

None of the 248 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.

Nearest streets in Staten Island

Buel Avenue runs through New Dorp and Grasmere, 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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