Street Nicholas Avenue, Queens: Grade C+ · 311 & City Data
Grade C+, 58 out of 100. How does Street Nicholas Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 58 out of 100.
Calm 45, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 82, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Street Nicholas Avenue in the top 28% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (99) and food nearby (94). Quietness (14) is the weak spot.
On the record
Commercial noise is the most-filed complaint on Street Nicholas Avenue, with 203 reports, and the block ranks in the louder half of smaller avenues. Across every category, 228 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 89% of them name commercial noise. After that the file runs to illegal parking (80 reports) and vehicle noise (51). In all, 36 distinct 311 categories are represented on Street Nicholas Avenue. Divided by the homes on file, Street Nicholas Avenue carries roughly 111 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited 5 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 2 per 100 homes on file. Bed bugs is what HPD writes up most on Street Nicholas Avenue, 10 violations of it. The housing file lists 30 residential buildings on Street Nicholas Avenue holding 206 homes, with 12 walk-ups and 1 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 6.9 homes each.
Since 2021, 11 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against smaller avenues, infrastructure comes in at 72, with parking at 33. Street Nicholas Avenue sits in the weaker half of smaller avenues on parking. Measured against smaller avenues, housing sits at 34 and traffic safety at 33. Transit ranks 93 and tree cover 35, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Street Nicholas Avenue, at 94. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band Street Nicholas Avenue is scored inside.
Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 99.
7% of the 206 homes recorded on Street Nicholas Avenue are rent-stabilized, 14 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 Ridgewood, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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