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Forest Hills, Queens

Coordinates: 40°42′58″N 73°51′00″W / 40.71611°N 73.85000°W / 40.71611; -73.85000
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This article is about the neighborhood. For the New York City subway station, see Forest Hills – 71st Avenue (IND Queens Boulevard Line). For the Long Island Rail Road station, see Forest Hills (LIRR station).
Forest Hills
Neighborhoods of New York City
Station Square
Station Square
Map
CountryUnited States
StateNew York
CountyQueens
Area
 • Total
2.6 sq mi (7 km2)
 • Land2.4 sq mi (6 km2)
 • Water0.2 sq mi (0.5 km2)
Population
 (2010)[1]
 • Total
66,307
 • Density27,237/sq mi (10,516/km2)
Diversity
 • White59.58%
 • Asian23.70%
 • Hispanic12.03%
 • Black3.73%
 • Foreign-born48.30%
Time zoneUTC-5 (EST)
 • Summer (DST)UTC-4 (EDT)
ZIP code
11375
Area code(s)718, 347, 917

Forest Hills is an upper middle class neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens.

Neighborhood

Austin Street, the main shopping area
Southeastern portion of Austin Street with typical Queens six-story red brick apartment buildings on one side and residential homes on the other
Post office displays a sporting theme

The neighborhood is disproportionately home to the upper-middle class, of whom the wealthiest often live in the Forest Hills Gardens section. Historically, Forest Hills has had many Jewish residents. Originally, the area was called Whitepot.[2] The development of adjacent Forest Park began in 1895.

In 1906, Brooklyn attorney Cord Meyer (note the large "CM" adorning the office building on the south side of Queens Boulevard near 72nd Avenue) bought abutting land made up of six farms (those of Ascan Bakus, Casper Joost-Springsteen, Horatio N. Squire, Abram V. S. Lott, Sarah V. Bolmer, and James Van Siclen) and then renamed the aggregated 600 acres Forest Hills. In 1909, Margaret Sage, who founded the Russell Sage Foundation, bought 142 acres (0.57 km2) of land from the Cord Meyer Development Company. The stated plan was to build good low-income housing and improve living conditions of the working poor, but the resulting huge property values made this claim totally impractical. Grosvenor Atterbury, a renowned architect, was given the commission to design Forest Hills Gardens. The neighborhood was planned on the model of the garden communities of England. As a result, there are many Tudor-style homes in Forest Hills, most located in Forest Hills Gardens. There are some Tudor homes outside of the Gardens.

The southern part of Forest Hills contains a particularly diverse mixture of upscale housing, ranging from single-family houses, attached townhouses, and both low-rise and high-rise apartment buildings. South of the Long Island Rail Road, the Forest Hills Gardens area is a private community that features some of the most expensive residential properties in Queens County. It was subject to restrictive covenants until the mid-1970s.[3]

Forest Hills Gardens was named "Best Community" in 2007 by Cottage Living Magazine. The adjacent Van Court community also contains a number of detached single-family homes. There are also attached townhouses near the Westside Tennis Center and detached frame houses near Metropolitan Avenue. Finally, there are a number of apartment buildings scattered throughout the community. The most notable high-rise apartment buildings are The Continental on 108th St, Kennedy House, the Pinnacle, and the Windsor. The north side of Forest Hills is home to the Cord Meyer community, which contains detached single-family homes. Teardowns and their replacement with larger single family residences has had a significant impact on the architectural integrity of the area.[4] However, the Bukharian Jewish community, whose members have settled in the area in large numbers since the late 1990s, advocating the changes say the bigger homes are needed for their large extended families.[5]

On the northwestern edge of Forest Hills, on 62nd Drive, immediately adjacent to the Long Island Expressway is a NYCHA (New York City Housing Authority) low-income housing project that provoked controversy[6] among the residents in the more prestigious areas of Forest Hills when it was constructed in the early 1970s.

Our Lady Queen of Martyrs Roman Catholic Church
Queens Boulevard, looking eastward

The main thoroughfare is the twelve-lane-wide Queens Boulevard. Metropolitan Avenue is known for its antique shops. Forest Hills is easily accessible by subway, rail, bus and car. The commercial heart of Forest Hills is a mile-long stretch of Austin Street between Yellowstone Boulevard and Ascan Avenue. The latter thoroughfare was named in 1909 by developer Frederick Backus for his own father, Ascan Backus, II.

Forest Hills has the multiple-link Forest Hills–71st Avenue subway station (E, ​F, <F>, ​M, and ​R trains) at the intersection of Continental Avenue and Queens Boulevard. The local 75th Avenue stop (E, ​F, and <F> trains) is also in the area, and some entrance/exits of the express Kew Gardens–Union Turnpike station (E, ​F, and <F> trains) service the southeastern portion of Forest Hills. The neighborhood also has a commuter train station, the Forest Hills station of the Long Island Railroad, where Continental Avenue and Austin Street intersect.

Forest Hills was once the home of the U.S. Open tennis tournament. The event was held at the West Side Tennis Club before it moved to the USTA National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows Park, about four miles (6 km) away. When the Open was played at the tennis stadium, the tournament was commonly referred to merely as Forest Hills, just as All-England Lawn Tennis Association Championships are referred to, simply, as Wimbledon. In the 2001 motion picture, The Royal Tenenbaums, Luke Wilson's character plays a tennis match at the West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills. A pivotal scene in Alfred Hitchcock's 1951 film Strangers on a Train, in which the main character (played by Farley Granger) is a professional tennis player, features a lengthy championship game at the Club, with distinctive shots of the surrounding community. [citation needed]

Two monuments are erected in Forest Hills Gardens: a tribute to the victims of World War I, the "Great War"; and the mast of the Columbia, the winner of the America's Cup yacht races in both 1899 and 1901. [citation needed]

Forest Hills was featured as the home setting for fictional comic book character, Peter Parker, Spider-Man.[7]

Economy

Education

Forest Hills is served by the New York City Department of Education.

K-12 Schools

Forest Hills High School
Russell Sage Junior High School

Pupils attend several public different elementary Schools, including:

Junior high students in Forest Hills attend either J.H.S. 157 Stephen A. Halsey (commonly referred to as Halsey) in Rego Park or J.H.S. 190 Russell Sage (known as Sage) in Forest Hills as well as the newest school from grade 6 to 12, M.S. 167 (otherwise known as Metropolitan Expeditionary Learning School (MELS)), "a school for a sustainable city". This school does partnership with New York City Outward Bound. New York City high school students at the turn of the 21st century began applying to the high schools of their choice, as there is no longer a zoning policy for Forest Hills High School. Students from all over New York City may apply to high schools in other parts of the city. In addition to Forest Hills High School, a large percentage of students from both J.H.S. 157 and J.H.S. 190 gain admission to other high schools in New York City. Many J.H.S. 157 students also attend the Bronx High School of Science and Brooklyn Technical High School.[8]

Traditionally many more students from J.H.S. 190 choose to study at Stuyvesant High School and Townsend Harris High School, in addition to the Bronx High School of Science.[9] Numerous students from Forest Hills also choose to attend middle and high school at the Baccalaureate School for Global Education, a public school in Astoria, Queens, which teaches grades 7 through 12 and follows the International Baccalaureate curriculum. Many of the students from outside the district accepted to attend Forest Hills High School are those who applied to either the school's Law & Humanities program, or the Carl Sagan program in accelerated math and science. FHHS began admitting students by audition to their Academy of Instructional Music and Performing Arts in 2005.[10] Famous graduates of Forest Hills High School include Jacob Lew, current US Secretary of the Treasury; Dennis Tito, the first outer space tourist; as well as many show-business stars, including musicians Burt Bacharach, Simon & Garfunkel, and The Ramones.

Catholic schools include Our Lady of Mercy and Our Lady Queen of Martyrs. [citation needed]

Colleges

Bramson ORT College is an undergraduate college operated by the American branch of the Jewish charity World ORT. Its main campus is in Forest Hills, with a satellite campus in Brooklyn. Touro College/NYSCAS has a branch location in Forest Hills.

Public libraries

The Forest Hills Library and the North Forest Park Library, operated by Queens Library, are in Forest Hills.[11][12]

Transportation

Forest Hills is served by the IND Queens Boulevard Line's E, ​F, <F>, ​M, and ​R routes. Stations serving Forest Hills are 67th Avenue (E, ​F, ​M, and ​R trains), Forest Hills – 71st Avenue (E, ​F, <F>, ​M, and ​R trains) and 75th Avenue (E, ​F, and <F> trains). Also, the Long Island Railroad stops at its own Forest Hills station. Several buses, including the Q60 on Queens Boulevard and Q64 along Jewel Avenue, serve the area, along with several MTA express buses to Manhattan. The Q23 follows a north-south route, bi-secting North Forest Hills, following 108th Street; and south of the LIRR, taking a west-ward diversion around Forest Hills Gardens, then resuming along 71st Avenue south of the Gardens.

Parks and recreation

Forest Hills is bordered by two of the more sizable parks in Queens managed by the NYC Department of Parks and Recreation: the 1,255 acres (5.08 km2) Flushing Meadows–Corona Park, the site of two World's Fairs and the iconic Unisphere, and the 544 acres (2.20 km2) Forest Park. Within Forest Hills, some of the more popular parks and playgrounds include: Yellowstone Municipal Park – Katzman Playground (located on Yellowstone Blvd, between 68th Avenue and 68th Road); The Annandale Playground (located on Yellowstone Blvd, between 64th Road and 65th Avenue); The Willow Lake Playground (located off the Grand Central Parkway, between 71st and 72nd Avenues); The Ehrenreich-Austin Playground (located on Austin St, between 76th Avenue and 76th Drive); and The Russell Sage Playground (located on 68 Ave, between Booth St and Austin St).[13]

Notable residents

Johnny Ramone
Paul Simon
Panorama view of the skyline

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