N 12 Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 54 out of 100. How does N 12 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 54 out of 100.
Calm 45, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 70, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts N 12 Street in the top 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (100) and food nearby (93). Quietness (11) is the weak spot.
On the record
Commercial noise is the most-filed complaint on North 12 Street, with 65 reports, and the block ranks in the louder half of quiet residential streets. Across every category, 119 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 55% of them name commercial noise. After that the file runs to illegal parking (27 reports) and blocked driveway (19). In all, 30 distinct 311 categories are represented on North 12 Street. Set against the 161 homes on file, that is about 74 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on North 12 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. 7 residential buildings on North 12 Street hold the 161 homes on file, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 2 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on North 12 Street holds about 23 homes.
Reported crashes on North 12 Street have injured 5 people since 2021.
Among quiet residential streets, North 12 Street ranks 96 on infrastructure and 18 on cleanliness. That 18 on cleanliness puts North 12 Street in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets. Measured against quiet residential streets, parking sits at 57 and traffic safety at 30. Against every street in the city, North 12 Street ranks 62 on tree cover and 60 on transit. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 93. North 12 Street is ranked against about 1,970 quiet residential streets citywide.
Housing is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 100.
Rent stabilization covers about 26% of the 161 homes on file, 42 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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