Melrose Avenue, Staten Island: Grade C · 311 & City Data
Grade C, 45 out of 100. How does Melrose Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 45 out of 100.
Calm 48, 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 32% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (79) and food nearby (45). Infrastructure (3) is the weak spot.
On the record
Traffic leads the 311 file on Melrose Avenue, with 15 reports. The file runs across 12 distinct 311 categories in all.
The HPD file on Melrose Avenue holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. 23 residential buildings on Melrose Avenue hold the 26 homes on file, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
NYPD records no injury from a reported crash on Melrose Avenue since 2021.
Against smaller avenues, traffic safety comes in at 60, with quietness at 15. That 15 on quietness puts Melrose Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Measured against smaller avenues, housing sits at 60 and cleanliness at 48. Transit ranks 39 and tree cover 32, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 45. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band Melrose Avenue is scored inside.
Parking is where Melrose Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 79.
None of the 26 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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Melrose Avenue runs through West New Brighton, 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).