12 Street, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 45 out of 100. How does 12 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 45 out of 100.
Calm 35, ranked against numbered streets. Access 64, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts 12 Street in the bottom 32% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (84) and tree cover (79). Quietness (2) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise is the most-filed complaint on 12 Street, with 1,451 reports, and the block ranks in the louder half of numbered streets. The whole 311 file on 12 Street holds 2,431 reports, and residential noise is 60% of it. Street/sidewalk noise follows with 331 reports, and illegal parking with 206. Reports on 12 Street span 78 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 184 reports for every 100 homes on 12 Street.
Inspectors have written 4 Class C violations on 12 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 0 per 100 homes on file. Bed bugs is what HPD writes up most on 12 Street, 22 violations of it. Pests follows at 15 violations. 119 residential buildings on 12 Street hold the 1,323 homes on file, 38 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 3 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 11 homes each.
NYPD records 44 people injured in crashes on 12 Street since 2021.
Among numbered streets, 12 Street ranks 48 on traffic safety and 25 on parking. A 25 on parking places 12 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, infrastructure sits at 48 and cleanliness at 28. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 68 and transit at 56. 12 Street ranks 79 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Housing is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 84.
Rent stabilization covers about 5% of the 1,323 homes on file, 66 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 Queensbridge, Old Astoria and Long Island City, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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