Forest Hills.

Forest Hills Gardens (the private 1909 planned community south of Queens Boulevard) is one of NYC's best-preserved row-house enclaves, with very low open-violation counts thanks to owner-occupied stability and the community's internal architectural review (separate from LPC). The audit shows public records; for any Forest Hills Gardens contract, ask about the Gardens Corporation's review requirements separately.

Most large Forest Hills co-ops (along Yellowstone Boulevard, 108th Street, and the Queens Boulevard corridor) are professionally managed with active reserve funds and meaningfully lower per-building open-violation counts than the area's rental stock. A handful carry layered façade or elevator filings. The audit shows the specific building's record.

Forest Hills Gardens is privately owned and managed by the Gardens Corporation rather than the city — exterior work goes through the corporation's review, not LPC. Most of the rest of Forest Hills is outside formal LPC historic districts. The audit's DOB permit history catches unpermitted work in the public-records system; the Gardens has separate internal rules a buyer should research.

Many pre-1974 6+ unit Forest Hills apartment buildings are rent-stabilized through standard rules. A meaningful share of the area's apartment stock converted to co-op in the 1980s-1990s, removing those buildings from stabilization. The audit's DHCR check shows current status; the rental vs co-op split matters significantly.

Forest Hills and adjacent Rego Park (11374) carry similar overall compliance profiles — pre-war and post-war elevator co-ops with low per-building counts, plus a smaller tier of higher-violation rental walk-ups. Forest Hills has more co-op conversion, Rego Park has more remaining rental stabilization. The audit's BBL-level data is the right comparison point.