Street Nicholas Place, Manhattan: Grade D · 311 & City Data
Grade D, 37 out of 100. How does Street Nicholas Place in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 37 out of 100.
Calm 16, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 77, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Street Nicholas Place in the bottom 12% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (48) and transit (94). Housing (1) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water is the most-filed complaint on Street Nicholas Place, with 767 reports. Across every category, 1,282 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 60% of them name heat and hot water. After that the file runs to illegal parking (205 reports) and residential noise (125). In all, 58 distinct 311 categories are represented on Street Nicholas Place. The 311 file works out to about 195 reports for every 100 homes on Street Nicholas Place.
HPD has cited 231 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 35 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 115 violations on file. Paint and lead follows at 115 violations, then heat and hot water at 77. The housing file lists 31 residential buildings on Street Nicholas Place holding 657 homes, with 18 walk-ups and 7 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 21 homes each.
Reported crashes on Street Nicholas Place have injured 19 people since 2021.
Among built-up residential streets, Street Nicholas Place ranks 23 on traffic safety and 2 on quietness. That 2 on quietness puts Street Nicholas Place in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets. Measured against built-up residential streets, parking sits at 19 and cleanliness at 9. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 67 and tree cover at 50. Street Nicholas Place ranks 94 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
Infrastructure is where Street Nicholas Place ranks best against built-up residential streets, at 48.
60% of the 657 homes recorded on Street Nicholas Place are rent-stabilized, 395 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 Avenue, Manhattan
- W 150 Street, Manhattan
- Frederick Douglass Boulevard, Manhattan
- Convent Avenue, Manhattan
- Macombs Place, Manhattan
- W 154 Street, Manhattan
Street Nicholas Place runs through Hamilton Heights, 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).