Nicolls Avenue, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 48 out of 100. How does Nicolls Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 48 out of 100.
Calm 42, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 59, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Nicolls Avenue in the bottom 42% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (93) and food nearby (82). Parking (18) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Nicolls Avenue name blocked driveway than any other category, 24 of them, and parking ranks 18 among smaller avenues. Blocked driveway accounts for 22% of the 107 reports on file here. Illegal parking follows with 20 reports, and residential noise with 19. Reports on Nicolls Avenue span 30 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, Nicolls Avenue carries roughly 60 reports per 100 of them.
Inspectors have written 3 Class C violations on Nicolls Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 2 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Nicolls Avenue, 17 violations of it. Behind it the file holds bed bugs, at 10 violations. PLUTO counts 66 residential buildings and 179 homes on Nicolls Avenue, with 27 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. The average building on Nicolls Avenue holds about 2.7 homes.
Of the ten measures on the card, traffic safety ranks 59 among smaller avenues and housing ranks 25. That 25 on housing puts Nicolls Avenue in the weaker half of smaller avenues. Cleanliness ranks 35 on the same scale, with quietness at 32. The citywide frame puts transit at 53 and tree cover at 39. Nicolls Avenue ranks 82 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 93.
None of the 179 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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Nicolls Avenue runs through Corona, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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