Forbell Street, Queens: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data

Grade D, 34 out of 100. How does Forbell Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade D, livability 34 out of 100.

Calm 26, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 48, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, and little within a walk.

That puts Forbell Street in the bottom 8% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on infrastructure (66) and transit (60). Quietness (1) is the weak spot.

On the record

More 311 reports on Forbell Street name residential noise than any other category, 22 of them, and the block ranks in the louder half of quiet residential streets. Residential noise accounts for 14% of the 153 reports on file here. The file runs across 19 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 62 homes on file, that is about 247 reports per 100 homes.

HPD has cited no Class C violation on Forbell Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. The housing file lists 41 residential buildings on Forbell Street holding 62 homes, with 2 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.

NYPD records 8 people injured in crashes on Forbell Street since 2021.

Among quiet residential streets, Forbell Street ranks 56 on parking and 5 on traffic safety. That 5 on traffic safety puts Forbell Street in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets. Housing ranks 46 on the same scale, with cleanliness at 21. Against every street in the city, Forbell Street ranks 53 on food nearby and 9 on tree cover. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 60. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,970 quiet residential streets.

Infrastructure is where Forbell Street ranks best against quiet residential streets, at 66.

Of the 62 homes on file, none are rent-stabilized.

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.

Nearest streets in Queens

Forbell Street runs through Ozone Park, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.

Every scored street in Queens, the citywide rankings of all 5,700+ graded streets, or Queens vs Brooklyn: How the Two Boroughs Score (2026 Data).

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