Street Nicholas Avenue, Manhattan NYC — Traffic Safety, Noise & Cleanliness Scores | 2026
Grade C+, 50 out of 100. How does Street Nicholas Avenue in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 50 out of 100.
Calm 27, 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 bottom 49% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (59) and tree cover (97); quietness (5) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water is the most-filed complaint on Street Nicholas Avenue, with 2,506 reports. HPD has cited 1,414 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 19 per 100 homes on file. Since 2021, 314 people have been injured in reported crashes. On the other side, parking ranks 59 among busy avenues. About 66% of the 7,337 homes on file are rent-stabilized.
Scores are built from 311 complaints, HPD violations, NYPD crash 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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