Merrill Avenue, Staten Island: Grade C+ · 311 & City Data
Grade C+, 48 out of 100. How does Merrill Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 48 out of 100.
Calm 53, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 39, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts Merrill Avenue in the bottom 42% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (84) and tree cover (54). Infrastructure (6) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Merrill Avenue, with 26 reports. Across every category, 59 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 44% of them name illegal parking. Behind it sits sewer, with 16 reports. In all, 29 distinct 311 categories are represented on Merrill Avenue. About 54 reports per 100 homes sit on Merrill Avenue, counting every category.
The HPD file on Merrill Avenue holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. City housing records put 110 homes in 68 residential buildings on Merrill Avenue, 1 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Against smaller avenues, quietness comes in at 53, with housing at 50. Merrill Avenue sits in the stronger half of smaller avenues on housing. The card also puts traffic safety at 53 and parking at 52 among smaller avenues. Food nearby ranks 48 and transit 27, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Merrill Avenue, at 54. Merrill Avenue is ranked against about 1,360 smaller avenues citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Merrill Avenue is cleanliness, at 84.
Of the 110 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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Merrill 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).