Buffalo Street, Staten Island: Grade C · 311 & City Data
Grade C, 43 out of 100. How does Buffalo Street in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 43 out of 100.
Calm 54, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 22, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but little within a walk.
That puts Buffalo Street in the bottom 26% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (93) and tree cover (54). Traffic safety (7) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
The file runs across 14 distinct 311 categories in all.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on Buffalo Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. 58 residential buildings on Buffalo Street hold the 75 homes on file, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Reported crashes on Buffalo Street have injured 6 people since 2021.
Among quiet residential streets, Buffalo Street ranks 75 on cleanliness and 34 on quietness. That 34 on quietness puts Buffalo Street in the weaker half of quiet residential streets. The card also puts parking at 72 and infrastructure at 47 among quiet residential streets. Against every street in the city, Buffalo Street ranks 15 on transit and 12 on food nearby. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 54. Buffalo Street is ranked against about 1,970 quiet residential streets citywide.
Housing is where Buffalo Street ranks best against quiet residential streets, at 93.
None of the 75 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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Buffalo Street runs through Oakwood, 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).