E 12 Street, Manhattan: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 69 out of 100. How does E 12 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 69 out of 100.
Calm 55, ranked against numbered streets. Access 94, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts E 12 Street in the top 8% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (76) and food nearby (98). Cleanliness (10) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on East 12 Street, with 222 reports, and cleanliness ranks 10 among numbered streets. The whole 311 file on East 12 Street holds 1,213 reports, and illegal parking is 18% of it. For hire vehicle complaint follows with 214 reports, and residential noise with 177. Reports on East 12 Street span 90 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 2,545 homes on file, that is about 48 reports per 100 homes.
East 12 Street carries 97 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 4 per 100 homes on file. Paint and lead is what HPD writes up most on East 12 Street, 72 violations of it. Behind it the file holds pests (64 violations) and structure (53). City housing records put 2,545 homes in 107 residential buildings on East 12 Street, 62 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 15 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 24 homes each.
NYPD records 49 people injured in crashes on East 12 Street since 2021.
Against numbered streets, infrastructure comes in at 70, with quietness at 49. East 12 Street sits in the weaker half of numbered streets on quietness. Parking ranks 65 on the same scale, with housing at 54. Against every street in the city, East 12 Street ranks 96 on transit and 83 on tree cover. East 12 Street ranks 98 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on East 12 Street is traffic safety, at 76.
Rent stabilization covers about 15% of the 2,545 homes on file, 383 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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E 12 Street runs through East Village and Greenwich Village, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
Every scored street in Manhattan, the citywide rankings of all 5,700+ graded streets, or Manhattan vs Brooklyn: How the Two Boroughs Score (2026 Data).