W Buchanan Street, Staten Island: Grade C+ · 311 & City Data
Grade C+, 55 out of 100. How does W Buchanan Street in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 55 out of 100.
Calm 68, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 31, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but little within a walk.
That puts W Buchanan Street in the top 36% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (88) and food nearby (35). Transit (28) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
The file runs across 12 distinct 311 categories in all.
The HPD file on West Buchanan Street holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. City housing records put 43 homes in 24 residential buildings on West Buchanan Street, 1 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
NYPD records no injury from a reported crash on West Buchanan Street since 2021.
Among quiet residential streets, West Buchanan Street ranks 81 on cleanliness and 51 on quietness. That 51 on quietness puts West Buchanan Street in the stronger half of quiet residential streets. Measured against quiet residential streets, infrastructure sits at 77 and housing at 57. Against every street in the city, West Buchanan Street ranks 34 on tree cover and 28 on transit. West Buchanan Street ranks 35 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,970 quiet residential streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on West Buchanan Street is traffic safety, at 88.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 43 on West Buchanan Street.
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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W Buchanan Street runs through St. George, 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).