W 12 Street, Manhattan: Grade A · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade A, 89 out of 100. How does W 12 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade A, livability 89 out of 100.
Calm 86, 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 W 12 Street in the top 1% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (96) and food nearby (97). Street crime (70) is the weak spot.
On the record
Encampment leads the 311 file on West 12 Street, with 218 reports. The whole 311 file on West 12 Street holds 405 reports, and encampment is 54% of it. After that the file runs to illegal parking (80 reports) and heat and hot water (64). The file runs across 69 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, West 12 Street carries roughly 17 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited 22 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, 25 violations of it. Pests accounts for 18 more, and paint and lead for 13. City housing records put 2,420 homes in 125 residential buildings on West 12 Street, 38 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 17 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 19 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on West 12 Street have injured 17 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, parking ranks 95 among numbered streets and infrastructure ranks 80. An 80 on infrastructure places West 12 Street in the strongest quarter of numbered streets. Quietness ranks 89 on the same scale, with housing at 81. Against every street in the city, West 12 Street ranks 96 on transit and 83 on tree cover. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 97. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Traffic safety is where West 12 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 96.
6% of the 2,420 homes recorded on West 12 Street are rent-stabilized, 140 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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W 12 Street runs through West 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).