Palmer Avenue, Staten Island: Grade C · 311 & City Data
Grade C, 47 out of 100. How does Palmer Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 47 out of 100.
Calm 43, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 53, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Palmer Avenue in the bottom 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (75) and food nearby (67). Infrastructure (8) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Palmer Avenue, with 15 reports. The whole 311 file on Palmer Avenue holds 51 reports, and illegal parking is 29% of it. Dirty condition is the next most-filed, with 12 reports. Reports on Palmer Avenue span 29 distinct 311 categories. About 59 reports per 100 homes sit on Palmer Avenue, counting every category.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on Palmer Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. The housing file lists 71 residential buildings on Palmer Avenue holding 87 homes, with 1 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
Against smaller avenues, housing comes in at 65, with parking at 28. Palmer Avenue sits in the weaker half of smaller avenues on parking. The card also puts traffic safety at 48 and quietness at 41 among smaller avenues. Against every street in the city, Palmer Avenue ranks 56 on tree cover and 43 on transit. Palmer Avenue ranks 67 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
Cleanliness is where Palmer Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 75.
Of the 87 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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Palmer Avenue runs through Port Richmond, 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).