Forley Street, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 53 out of 100. How does Forley Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 53 out of 100.
Calm 43, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 71, 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 Forley Street in the top 41% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (80) and food nearby (85). Street crime (17) is the weak spot.
On the record
Blocked driveway is the most-filed complaint on Forley Street, with 79 reports. The whole 311 file on Forley Street holds 223 reports, and blocked driveway is 35% of it. After that the file runs to illegal parking (56 reports) and residential noise (17). Reports on Forley Street span 35 distinct 311 categories. About 50 reports per 100 homes sit on Forley Street, counting every category.
Inspectors have written 2 Class C violations on Forley Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 0 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is bed bugs, with 18 violations on file. Pests accounts for 10 more. City housing records put 443 homes in 132 residential buildings on Forley Street, 50 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 2 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 3.4 homes to a building.
NYPD records 10 people injured in crashes on Forley Street since 2021.
Against built-up residential streets, quietness comes in at 62, with parking at 19. Forley Street sits in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets on parking. The card also puts housing at 61 and traffic safety at 34 among built-up residential streets. Against every street in the city, Forley Street ranks 70 on transit and 50 on tree cover. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 85. About 790 built-up residential streets make up the band Forley Street is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Forley Street is infrastructure, at 80.
36% of the 443 homes recorded on Forley Street are rent-stabilized, 159 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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Forley Street runs through Elmhurst, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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