Nicholas Avenue, Staten Island: Grade F · 311 & City Data
Grade F, 27 out of 100. How does Nicholas Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade F, livability 27 out of 100.
Calm 25, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 31, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts Nicholas Avenue in the bottom 2% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (66) and tree cover (57). Cleanliness (9) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Nicholas Avenue name illegal parking than any other category, 43 of them, and cleanliness ranks 9 among smaller avenues. Across every category, 164 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 26% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to missed collection (26 reports) and blocked driveway (22). Reports on Nicholas Avenue span 44 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 243 homes on file, that is about 67 reports per 100 homes.
Nicholas Avenue carries 4 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 2 per 100 homes on file. Doors is what HPD writes up most on Nicholas Avenue, 18 violations of it. Behind it the file holds pests, at 11 violations. 126 residential buildings on Nicholas Avenue hold the 243 homes on file, 4 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Since 2021, 9 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among smaller avenues, Nicholas Avenue ranks 31 on quietness and 20 on parking. That 20 on parking puts Nicholas Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. The card also puts traffic safety at 25 and housing at 21 among smaller avenues. Food nearby ranks 27 and transit 23, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 57. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band Nicholas Avenue is scored inside.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 66.
Of the 243 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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Nicholas Avenue runs through Port Richmond, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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