Merrick Avenue, Staten Island: Grade D · 311 & City Data
Grade D, 36 out of 100. How does Merrick Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 36 out of 100.
Calm 50, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 9, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts Merrick Avenue in the bottom 10% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (68) and food nearby (18). Transit (1) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Merrick Avenue, with 12 reports. Behind it sits illegal posting, with 10 reports. The file runs across 9 distinct 311 categories in all.
The HPD file on Merrick Avenue holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. 20 residential buildings on Merrick Avenue hold the 20 homes on file, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Since 2021, reported crashes on Merrick Avenue have injured no one.
Among smaller avenues, Merrick Avenue ranks 61 on housing and 19 on parking. A 19 on parking places Merrick Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Infrastructure ranks 50 on the same scale, with quietness at 27. The citywide frame puts tree cover at 15 and transit at 1. Merrick Avenue ranks 18 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
Traffic safety is where Merrick Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 62.
Of the 20 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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Merrick Avenue runs through Todt Hill, 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).