12 Road, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 48 out of 100. How does 12 Road in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 48 out of 100.
Calm 51, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 43, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, but little within a walk.
That puts 12 Road in the bottom 42% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (96) and tree cover (83). Infrastructure (13) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on 12 Road name illegal parking than any other category, 35 of them. Across every category, 145 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 24% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to street condition (20 reports) and blocked driveway (12). The file runs across 31 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 217 homes on file, that is about 67 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on 12 Road, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. 184 residential buildings on 12 Road hold the 217 homes on file, 1 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Since 2021, 7 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, quietness ranks 68 among built-up residential streets and parking ranks 18. An 18 on parking places 12 Road in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets. Measured against built-up residential streets, cleanliness sits at 52 and traffic safety at 33. Food nearby ranks 65 and transit 13, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 83. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
Housing is where 12 Road ranks best against built-up residential streets, at 96.
None of the 217 homes on file are rent-stabilized.
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 Road runs through Whitestone, 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).