12 Avenue, Queens: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 63 out of 100. How does 12 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 63 out of 100.
Calm 78, ranked against busy avenues. Access 34, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts 12 Avenue in the top 17% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (99) and tree cover (89). Transit (7) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
More 311 reports on 12 Avenue name illegal parking than any other category, 120 of them. Illegal parking accounts for 47% of the 254 reports on file here. Street/sidewalk noise follows with 54 reports, and abandoned vehicle with 34. Reports on 12 Avenue span 42 distinct 311 categories. About 38 reports per 100 homes sit on 12 Avenue, counting every category.
No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on 12 Avenue. PLUTO counts 247 residential buildings and 663 homes on 12 Avenue, with 2 walk-ups and 6 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 2.7 homes to a building.
NYPD records 6 people injured in crashes on 12 Avenue since 2021.
Against busy avenues, cleanliness comes in at 93, with parking at 29. That 29 on parking puts 12 Avenue in the weaker half of busy avenues. Traffic safety ranks 87 on the same scale, with quietness at 62. Against every street in the city, 12 Avenue ranks 42 on food nearby and 7 on transit. 12 Avenue ranks 89 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
Housing is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 99.
About 1% of the 663 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 4 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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12 Avenue runs through Whitestone, Astoria and Breezy Point, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
Every scored street in Queens, the citywide rankings of all 5,700+ graded streets, or Queens vs Brooklyn: How the Two Boroughs Score (2026 Data).