Nichols Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 46 out of 100. How does Nichols Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 46 out of 100.
Calm 30, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 75, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Nichols Avenue in the bottom 35% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (68) and transit (80). Quietness (18) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Nichols Avenue name illegal parking than any other category, 88 of them. The whole 311 file on Nichols Avenue holds 306 reports, and illegal parking is 29% of it. Residential noise follows with 49 reports, and blocked driveway with 45. In all, 52 distinct 311 categories are represented on Nichols Avenue. Set against the 409 homes on file, that is about 75 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 11 Class C violations on Nichols Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 3 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Nichols Avenue is pests, at 35 violations. Behind it the file holds heat and hot water (13 violations) and bed bugs (11). PLUTO counts 190 residential buildings and 409 homes on Nichols Avenue, with 41 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 2.2 homes each.
NYPD records 11 people injured in crashes on Nichols Avenue since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, traffic safety ranks 38 among smaller avenues and cleanliness ranks 22. A 22 on cleanliness places Nichols Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Measured against smaller avenues, parking sits at 30 and housing at 24. Against every street in the city, Nichols Avenue ranks 74 on tree cover and 67 on food nearby. Nichols Avenue ranks 80 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
Infrastructure is where Nichols Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 68.
None of the 409 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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