W 12 Street, Brooklyn: Grade A · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade A, 83 out of 100. How does W 12 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade A, livability 83 out of 100.
Calm 88, ranked against numbered streets. Access 75, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts W 12 Street in the top 1% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (100) and tree cover (77). Parking (34) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on West 12 Street, with 427 reports, and parking ranks 34 among numbered streets. The whole 311 file on West 12 Street holds 717 reports, and illegal parking is 60% of it. After that the file runs to blocked driveway (77 reports) and residential noise (39). The file runs across 65 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, West 12 Street carries roughly 32 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited 23 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 1 per 100 homes on file. Bed bugs is what HPD writes up most on West 12 Street, 35 violations of it. Doors accounts for 31 more, and pests for 26. City housing records put 2,244 homes in 301 residential buildings on West 12 Street, 66 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 7.5 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on West 12 Street have injured 18 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, quietness ranks 98 among numbered streets and housing ranks 84. An 84 on housing places West 12 Street in the strongest quarter of numbered streets. Traffic safety ranks 94 on the same scale, with infrastructure at 87. Against every street in the city, West 12 Street ranks 76 on transit and 72 on food nearby. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 77. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Cleanliness is where West 12 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 100.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 2,244 on West 12 Street.
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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W 12 Street runs through Gravesend, Coney Island and Bensonhurst, 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).