Melvin Avenue, Staten Island: Grade C · 311 & City Data
Grade C, 41 out of 100. How does Melvin Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 41 out of 100.
Calm 49, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 25, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts Melvin Avenue in the bottom 21% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (84) and tree cover (36). Cleanliness (17) is the weak spot.
On the record
The file runs across 12 distinct 311 categories in all.
The HPD file on Melvin Avenue holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. PLUTO counts 63 residential buildings and 66 homes on Melvin Avenue, with 0 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
NYPD records no injury from a reported crash on Melvin Avenue since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, traffic safety ranks 81 among smaller avenues and parking ranks 29. A 29 on parking places Melvin Avenue in the weaker half of smaller avenues. Infrastructure ranks 48 on the same scale, with quietness at 37. Against every street in the city, Melvin Avenue ranks 31 on food nearby and 17 on transit. Melvin Avenue ranks 36 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
Housing is where Melvin Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 84.
Of the 66 homes on file, none 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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Melvin Avenue runs through New Springville, 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).