Van Buren Street, Staten Island: Grade D · 311 & City Data
Grade D, 34 out of 100. How does Van Buren Street in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 34 out of 100.
Calm 37, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 27, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, and little within a walk.
That puts Van Buren Street in the bottom 8% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (93) and food nearby (31). Cleanliness (8) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Van Buren Street name blocked driveway than any other category, 14 of them, and cleanliness ranks 8 among quiet residential streets. The whole 311 file on Van Buren Street holds 86 reports, and blocked driveway is 16% of it. Residential noise follows with 12 reports, and water system with 11. The file runs across 23 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, Van Buren Street carries roughly 72 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on Van Buren Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. HPD's most-cited category on Van Buren Street is pests, at 14 violations. City housing records put 120 homes in 75 residential buildings on Van Buren Street, 4 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
No one has been injured in a reported crash here since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, parking ranks 50 among quiet residential streets and quietness ranks 12. Van Buren Street sits in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets on quietness. Infrastructure ranks 24 on the same scale, with housing at 23. Against every street in the city, Van Buren Street ranks 30 on tree cover and 24 on transit. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 31. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,970 quiet residential streets.
Traffic safety is where Van Buren Street ranks best against quiet residential streets, at 93.
None of the 120 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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Van Buren Street runs through St. George, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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