Forest Hills

Queens · Neighborhood Tabulation Area, as drawn by NYC City Planning (2020) — a statistical area, not an official neighborhood boundary.

Building grades

7,086 graded residential buildings. The local median is 0 penalty points per 10 units over three years (how grades work).

A6,436 B299 C238 D93 F20

The most distressed buildings in Forest Hills

Sales and rents

Homes: 171 sales, median $1,350,000 (half of sales fell between $1,095,000 and $1,782,000); median $799 per square foot.
Apartments: 762 sales, median $380,000 (half of sales fell between $290,000 and $546,000).

Recorded sales, 2025-09-30 to 2026-09-30, NYC Department of Finance. Excludes transfers under $10,000 and suspected package sales (the same price on the same day for several properties on one block).

Median gross rent: $2,125 a month.

Approximate median monthly gross rent (rent plus utilities) among households paying cash rent, derived from 2020–2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates, U.S. Census Bureau (our calculation from the published rent ranges). Includes rent-stabilized and long-time tenants; asking rents for vacant apartments are usually higher.

Largest managing agents here

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Getting around

37% of the 7,086 graded buildings in this neighborhood have a subway or Staten Island Railway station within about a 10-minute walk (straight-line estimate, transit data of 2026-09-24).

Distances are straight-line, not walking routes.

Restaurants in Forest Hills

219 restaurants in Forest Hills have a DOHMH inspection on record: A 167 · B 16 · C 5 · Grade Pending 18 · Not yet graded 13. 78 (36%) have inspector-recorded evidence of mice.

showing up to 20, worst first · 24 more establishments in Forest Hills are registered but not yet inspected · the full list lives on the ZIP page: ZIP 11375

ZIP codes

Graded buildings in this neighborhood by ZIP code: 11375 (91%).

Nearby neighborhoods

Corona, Glendale, Kew Gardens, Rego Park.