Buffington Avenue, Staten Island: Grade C+ · 311 & City Data
Grade C+, 51 out of 100. How does Buffington Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 51 out of 100.
Calm 58, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 38, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts Buffington Avenue in the top 48% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (96) and tree cover (56). Quietness (9) is the weak spot.
On the record
The file runs across 15 distinct 311 categories in all.
The HPD file on Buffington Avenue holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. City housing records put 40 homes in 29 residential buildings on Buffington Avenue, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
NYPD records no injury from a reported crash on Buffington Avenue since 2021.
Among smaller avenues, Buffington Avenue ranks 71 on housing and 48 on infrastructure. Buffington Avenue sits in the weaker half of smaller avenues on infrastructure. Traffic safety ranks 68 on the same scale, with cleanliness at 55. The citywide frame puts transit at 47 and food nearby at 12. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 56. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band Buffington Avenue is scored inside.
Parking is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 96.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 40 on Buffington Avenue.
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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Buffington Avenue runs through Annadale, 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).