Merriman Avenue, Staten Island: Grade C · 311 & City Data

Grade C, 40 out of 100. How does Merriman Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade C, livability 40 out of 100.

Calm 54, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 14, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.

That puts Merriman Avenue in the bottom 18% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on infrastructure (69) and food nearby (23). Transit (6) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.

On the record

No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on Merriman Avenue. PLUTO counts 24 residential buildings and 24 homes on Merriman Avenue, with 0 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.

No one has been injured in a reported crash here since 2021.

Of the ten measures on the card, traffic safety ranks 58 among smaller avenues and parking ranks 26. Merriman Avenue sits in the weaker half of smaller avenues on parking. Measured against smaller avenues, housing sits at 57 and cleanliness at 46. The citywide frame puts tree cover at 18 and transit at 6. Merriman Avenue ranks 23 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.

Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 69.

Of the 24 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.

Nearest streets in Staten Island

Merriman Avenue runs through Westerleigh, 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).

The full report for Merriman Avenue