Melba Street, Staten Island: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 46 out of 100. How does Melba Street in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 46 out of 100.
Calm 59, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 23, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but little within a walk.
That puts Melba Street in the bottom 35% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (98) and tree cover (70). Transit (2) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
More 311 reports on Melba Street name illegal parking than any other category, 13 of them. The whole 311 file on Melba Street holds 64 reports, and illegal parking is 20% of it. In all, 18 distinct 311 categories are represented on Melba Street. The 311 file works out to about 42 reports for every 100 homes on Melba Street.
The HPD file on Melba Street carries 1 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 1 per 100 homes on file. PLUTO counts 118 residential buildings and 153 homes on Melba Street, with 0 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
Since 2021, reported crashes on Melba Street have injured no one.
Of the ten measures on the card, parking ranks 59 among quiet residential streets and cleanliness ranks 14. A 14 on cleanliness places Melba Street in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets. The card also puts housing at 46 and infrastructure at 26 among quiet residential streets. Food nearby ranks 27 and transit 2, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Melba Street ranks 70 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. About 1,970 quiet residential streets make up the band Melba Street is scored inside.
Traffic safety is where Melba Street ranks best against quiet residential streets, at 96.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 153 on Melba Street.
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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Melba Street runs through Todt Hill, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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