12 Street, Brooklyn: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 71 out of 100. How does 12 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 71 out of 100.
Calm 64, ranked against numbered streets. Access 85, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 12 Street in the top 7% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (95) and food nearby (90). Cleanliness (18) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on 12 Street, with 173 reports, and cleanliness ranks 18 among numbered streets. Across every category, 743 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 23% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to unsanitary condition (35 reports) and heat and hot water (31). In all, 76 distinct 311 categories are represented on 12 Street. About 58 reports per 100 homes sit on 12 Street, counting every category.
12 Street carries 105 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 8 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 83 violations on file. Bed bugs accounts for 51 more, and paint and lead for 51. PLUTO counts 264 residential buildings and 1,283 homes on 12 Street, with 110 walk-ups and 2 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 4.9 homes each.
Since 2021, 9 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, quietness ranks 89 among numbered streets and housing ranks 21. 12 Street sits in the weakest quarter of numbered streets on housing. Parking ranks 71 on the same scale, with infrastructure at 33. Against every street in the city, 12 Street ranks 86 on tree cover and 81 on transit. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on 12 Street, at 90. About 990 numbered streets make up the band 12 Street is scored inside.
Traffic safety is where 12 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 95.
The housing file puts 14% of the 1,283 homes on 12 Street in rent stabilization, 171 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 Street runs through Park Slope and Carroll Gardens, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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