E 12 Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 57 out of 100. How does E 12 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 57 out of 100.
Calm 48, ranked against numbered streets. Access 75, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts E 12 Street in the top 30% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (73) and tree cover (94). Quietness (24) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise leads the 311 file on East 12 Street, with 1,293 reports, and the block ranks in the louder half of numbered streets. Across every category, 1,804 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 72% of them name residential noise. Blocked driveway is the next most-filed at 312 reports, then illegal parking at 242. Reports on East 12 Street span 80 distinct 311 categories. About 78 reports per 100 homes sit on East 12 Street, counting every category.
Inspectors have written 102 Class C violations on East 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 paint and lead, with 125 violations on file. Pests accounts for 119 more, and doors for 60. City housing records put 2,304 homes in 683 residential buildings on East 12 Street, 120 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 12 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 3.4 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 51 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, traffic safety ranks 57 among numbered streets and parking ranks 26. East 12 Street sits in the weaker half of numbered streets on parking. The card also puts cleanliness at 51 and housing at 38 among numbered streets. Food nearby ranks 72 and transit 69, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on East 12 Street, at 94. East 12 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on East 12 Street is infrastructure, at 63.
Rent stabilization covers about 25% of the 2,304 homes on file, 575 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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