Macfarland Avenue, Staten Island: Grade C · 311 & City Data

Grade C, 46 out of 100. How does Macfarland Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade C, livability 46 out of 100.

Calm 55, 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 Macfarland Avenue in the bottom 35% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on parking (94) and food nearby (39). Tree cover (0) is the weak spot.

On the record

More 311 reports on Macfarland Avenue name damaged tree than any other category, 11 of them. Reports on Macfarland Avenue span 23 distinct 311 categories.

HPD has cited no Class C violation on Macfarland Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. The housing file lists 57 residential buildings on Macfarland Avenue holding 78 homes, with 2 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.

Of the ten measures on the card, housing ranks 94 among smaller avenues and quietness ranks 16. That 16 on quietness puts Macfarland Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Measured against smaller avenues, infrastructure sits at 90 and cleanliness at 27. Transit ranks 25 and tree cover 0, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Macfarland Avenue, at 39. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.

Parking is where Macfarland Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 94.

None of the 78 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

Macfarland Avenue runs through 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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