Street Nicholas Avenue, Manhattan: Grade C+ · Street Data
Grade C+, 51 out of 100. How does Street Nicholas Avenue in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 51 out of 100.
Calm 28, ranked against busy avenues. Access 93, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Street Nicholas Avenue in the top 48% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (58) and tree cover (97). Quietness (6) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water leads the 311 file on Street Nicholas Avenue, with 2,506 reports. Across every category, 9,446 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 27% of them name heat and hot water. Street/sidewalk noise follows with 2,206 reports, and residential noise with 834. The file runs across 115 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, Street Nicholas Avenue carries roughly 129 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited 1,409 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 19 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Street Nicholas Avenue, 924 violations of it. Paint and lead follows at 842 violations, then doors at 534. The housing file lists 278 residential buildings on Street Nicholas Avenue holding 7,337 homes, with 149 walk-ups and 79 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 26 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on Street Nicholas Avenue have injured 314 people since 2021.
Among busy avenues, Street Nicholas Avenue ranks 55 on infrastructure and 16 on housing. A 16 on housing places Street Nicholas Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. Traffic safety ranks 37 on the same scale, with cleanliness at 26. Transit ranks 94 and food nearby 88, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 97. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
Parking is where Street Nicholas Avenue ranks best against busy avenues, at 58.
The housing file puts 66% of the 7,337 homes on Street Nicholas Avenue in rent stabilization, 4,816 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.
Nearest streets in Manhattan
- Street Nicholas Place, Manhattan
- W 155 Street, Manhattan
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- W 156 Street, Manhattan
- Frederick Douglass Boulevard, Manhattan
- W 159 Street, Manhattan
Street Nicholas Avenue runs through Washington Heights, Hamilton Heights and Manhattanville, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
Every scored street in Manhattan, the citywide rankings of all 5,700+ graded streets, or Manhattan vs Brooklyn: How the Two Boroughs Score (2026 Data).