Merle Place, Staten Island: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 57 out of 100. How does Merle Place in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 57 out of 100.
Calm 69, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 35, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but little within a walk.
That puts Merle Place in the top 30% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (92) and transit (49). Housing (7) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
In all, 23 distinct 311 categories are represented on Merle Place. About 66 reports per 100 homes sit on Merle Place, counting every category.
HPD has cited 10 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 9 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is doors, with 19 violations on file. Electrical follows at 15 violations, then pests at 14. The housing file lists 20 residential buildings on Merle Place holding 109 homes, with 8 walk-ups and 1 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 5.5 homes to a building.
No one has been injured in a reported crash here since 2021.
Against quiet residential streets, quietness comes in at 89, with parking at 55. Merle Place sits in the stronger half of quiet residential streets on parking. Measured against quiet residential streets, cleanliness sits at 87 and infrastructure at 73. The citywide frame puts tree cover at 34 and food nearby at 12. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 49. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,970 quiet residential streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Merle Place is traffic safety, at 92.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 109 on Merle Place.
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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Merle Place runs through Rosebank, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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