Poplar Avenue, Staten Island: Grade C+ · 311 & City Data
Grade C+, 53 out of 100. How does Poplar Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 53 out of 100.
Calm 66, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 29, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts Poplar Avenue in the top 41% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (93) and tree cover (54). Cleanliness (2) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
In all, 10 distinct 311 categories are represented on Poplar Avenue.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on Poplar Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. PLUTO counts 33 residential buildings and 54 homes on Poplar Avenue, with 0 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
NYPD records no injury from a reported crash on Poplar Avenue since 2021.
Against smaller avenues, parking comes in at 85, with housing at 41. A 41 on housing places Poplar Avenue in the weaker half of smaller avenues. The card also puts traffic safety at 75 and infrastructure at 75 among smaller avenues. Food nearby ranks 42 and transit 12, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Poplar Avenue ranks 54 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band Poplar Avenue is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Poplar Avenue is quietness, at 93.
None of the 54 homes on file 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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Poplar Avenue runs through Arden Heights, 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).