Forest Avenue, Queens: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 69 out of 100. How does Forest Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 69 out of 100.
Calm 62, ranked against busy avenues. Access 82, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Forest Avenue in the top 8% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (88) and food nearby (89). Infrastructure (29) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Forest Avenue, with 724 reports. Residential noise follows with 100 reports, and blocked driveway with 63. Reports on Forest Avenue span 75 distinct 311 categories. About 93 reports per 100 homes sit on Forest Avenue, counting every category.
The HPD file on Forest Avenue carries 17 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 3 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Forest Avenue is pests, at 51 violations. Bed bugs accounts for 50 more, and doors for 41. PLUTO counts 192 residential buildings and 664 homes on Forest Avenue, with 72 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 3.5 homes each.
Reported crashes on Forest Avenue have injured 101 people since 2021.
Against busy avenues, housing comes in at 87, with traffic safety at 32. That 32 on traffic safety puts Forest Avenue in the weaker half of busy avenues. Cleanliness ranks 73 on the same scale, with quietness at 56. Against every street in the city, Forest Avenue ranks 84 on tree cover and 76 on transit. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 89. Forest Avenue is ranked against about 550 busy avenues citywide.
Parking is where Forest Avenue ranks best against busy avenues, at 88.
The housing file puts 11% of the 664 homes on Forest Avenue in rent stabilization, 74 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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Forest Avenue runs through Ridgewood, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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