Forbell Street, Brooklyn: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 34 out of 100. How does Forbell Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 34 out of 100.
Calm 23, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 55, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Forbell Street in the bottom 8% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (67) and tree cover (84). Street crime (2) is the weak spot.
On the record
House of worship noise is the most-filed complaint on Forbell Street, with 91 reports. Across every category, 375 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 24% of them name house of worship noise. Residential noise follows with 72 reports, and blocked driveway with 41. Reports on Forbell Street span 65 distinct 311 categories. About 93 reports per 100 homes sit on Forbell Street, counting every category.
Forbell Street carries 8 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 2 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 26 violations on file. City housing records put 404 homes in 189 residential buildings on Forbell Street, 27 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 2.1 homes to a building.
NYPD records 32 people injured in crashes on Forbell Street since 2021.
Among built-up residential streets, Forbell Street ranks 48 on housing and 8 on quietness. That 8 on quietness puts Forbell Street in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets. Parking ranks 29 on the same scale, with traffic safety at 9. Transit ranks 49 and food nearby 45, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Forbell Street ranks 84 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. About 790 built-up residential streets make up the band Forbell Street is scored inside.
Cleanliness is where Forbell Street ranks best against built-up residential streets, at 67.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 404 on Forbell 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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Forbell Street runs through East New York & City Line, 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).