Kew Forest Lane, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 56 out of 100. How does Kew Forest Lane in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 56 out of 100.
Calm 44, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 77, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Kew Forest Lane in the top 33% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (75) and transit (92). Infrastructure (20) is the weak spot.
On the record
Blocked driveway leads the 311 file on Kew Forest Lane, with 10 reports. The whole 311 file on Kew Forest Lane holds 36 reports, and blocked driveway is 28% of it. Reports on Kew Forest Lane span 23 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, Kew Forest Lane carries roughly 58 reports per 100 of them.
No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on Kew Forest Lane. The housing file lists 14 residential buildings on Kew Forest Lane holding 62 homes, with 1 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 4.4 homes to a building.
Against quiet residential streets, cleanliness comes in at 70, with traffic safety at 21. Kew Forest Lane sits in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets on traffic safety. Housing ranks 40 on the same scale, with parking at 29. Food nearby ranks 74 and tree cover 42, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 92. About 1,970 quiet residential streets make up the band Kew Forest Lane is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Kew Forest Lane is quietness, at 75.
About 58% of the 62 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 36 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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Kew Forest Lane runs through Forest Hills, 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).