Melrose Avenue, Staten Island NYC — Traffic Safety, Noise & Cleanliness Scores | 2026

Grade C, 44 out of 100. How does Melrose Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade C, livability 44 out of 100.

Calm 47, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 39, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.

That puts Melrose Avenue in the bottom 29% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on parking (79) and food nearby (45); infrastructure (3) is the weak spot.

On the record

Traffic is the most-filed complaint on Melrose Avenue, with 15 reports. No one has been injured in a reported crash here since 2021. On the other side, parking ranks 79 among smaller avenues. None of the 26 homes on file are rent-stabilized.

Scores are built from 311 complaints, HPD violations, NYPD crash 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.

View the full interactive report with street-level data on BestageStreet NYC, covering safety, noise, and cleanliness scores for 5,700+ NYC streets from 5M+ 311 reports.