Brighton 12 Street, Brooklyn: Grade B+ · 311 & City Data
Grade B+, 69 out of 100. How does Brighton 12 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 69 out of 100.
Calm 70, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 67, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Brighton 12 Street in the top 8% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (81) and transit (75). Tree cover (39) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Brighton 12 Street name heat and hot water than any other category, 66 of them. The whole 311 file on Brighton 12 Street holds 186 reports, and heat and hot water is 35% of it. Illegal parking is the next most-filed at 31 reports, then residential noise at 15. Reports on Brighton 12 Street span 47 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, Brighton 12 Street carries roughly 26 reports per 100 of them.
Inspectors have written 31 Class C violations on Brighton 12 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 4 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 21 violations on file. Structure accounts for 14 more, and doors for 13. City housing records put 702 homes in 29 residential buildings on Brighton 12 Street, 10 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 7 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Brighton 12 Street holds about 24 homes.
Among built-up residential streets, Brighton 12 Street ranks 78 on quietness and 41 on housing. Brighton 12 Street sits in the weaker half of built-up residential streets on housing. Parking ranks 78 on the same scale, with infrastructure at 75. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 73 and tree cover at 39. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 75. About 790 built-up residential streets make up the band Brighton 12 Street is scored inside.
Traffic safety is where Brighton 12 Street ranks best against built-up residential streets, at 81.
Rent stabilization covers about 51% of the 702 homes on file, 360 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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Brighton 12 Street runs through Brighton Beach, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
Every scored street in Brooklyn, the citywide rankings of all 5,700+ graded streets, or Queens vs Brooklyn: How the Two Boroughs Score (2026 Data).