Street Nicholas Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade B+ · 311 & City Data
Grade B+, 68 out of 100. How does Street Nicholas Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 68 out of 100.
Calm 58, ranked against busy avenues. Access 87, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Street Nicholas Avenue in the top 10% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (96) and food nearby (93). Traffic safety (33) is the weak spot.
On the record
The crash record is the heaviest thing on file for Street Nicholas Avenue. Reported crashes here have injured 69 people since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 33 among busy avenues. Illegal parking draws more reports than anything else here, 54 of them. The whole 311 file on Street Nicholas Avenue holds 513 reports, and illegal parking is 11% of it. After that the file runs to residential noise (43 reports) and unsanitary condition (33). In all, 68 distinct 311 categories are represented on Street Nicholas Avenue. About 61 reports per 100 homes sit on Street Nicholas Avenue, counting every category.
HPD has cited 58 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 7 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 79 violations on file. Bed bugs follows at 68 violations, then paint and lead at 22. The housing file lists 188 residential buildings on Street Nicholas Avenue holding 837 homes, with 113 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 4.5 homes each.
Of the ten measures on the card, parking ranks 75 among busy avenues and cleanliness ranks 36. Street Nicholas Avenue sits in the weaker half of busy avenues on cleanliness. The card also puts quietness at 69 and housing at 55 among busy avenues. Against every street in the city, Street Nicholas Avenue ranks 85 on transit and 81 on tree cover. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Street Nicholas Avenue, at 93. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 96.
About 8% of the 837 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 66 homes in all.
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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Street Nicholas Avenue runs through Bushwick and Ridgewood, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
Every scored street in Brooklyn, the citywide rankings of all 5,700+ graded streets, or Queens vs Brooklyn: How the Two Boroughs Score (2026 Data).