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Forest Hills is a neighborhood in the central portion of the borough of Queens in New York City. It is adjacent to Corona to the north, Rego Park and Glendale to the west, Forest Park to the south, Kew Gardens to the southeast and Flushing Meadows–Corona Park and Kew Gardens Hills to the east.Template:Efn

The area was originally referred to as "Whitepot".<ref name="About Forest Hills">About Forest Hills at QueensNewYork.com</ref> The current name comes from the Cord Meyer Development Company, which bought Template:Convert in central Queens in 1906 and renamed it after Forest Park. Further development came in the 1920s and 1930s with the widening of Queens Boulevard through the neighborhood, as well as the opening of the New York City Subway's Queens Boulevard Line. Forest Hills has a longstanding association with tennis: the Forest Hills Stadium hosted the U.S. Open from 1915 through 1977 and the West Side Tennis Club offers grass courts for its members. The area's main commercial street, Austin Street, contains many restaurants and chain stores.

Forest Hills is located in Queens Community District 6 and its ZIP Code is 11375.<ref name="NYCPlanning"/> It is patrolled by the New York City Police Department's 112th Precinct.<ref name="NYPD 112th Precinct"/> Politically, Forest Hills is represented by the New York City Council's 29th District.<ref>Current City Council Districts for Queens County, New York City. Accessed May 5, 2017.</ref> It is located within Template:Ushr.

HistoryEdit

DevelopmentEdit

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Station sign at Forest Hills station

The development of adjacent Forest Park, a park on the southern end of Forest Hills, began in 1895. Starting in 1896, the landscape architecture firm of Olmsted, Olmsted & Eliot was contracted to provide a plan for the park.<ref name=":1" />Template:Rp

In 1906, the Cord Meyer Development Company, headed by Brooklyn attorney Cord Meyer, 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). The company then renamed the aggregate Template:Convert "Forest Hills", after Forest Park. Single-family homes, designed by architects such as Robert Tappan and William Patterson, were constructed on these 600 acres.<ref name=":1" />Template:Rp The roads of Forest Hills were laid out by 1910.<ref name=":1" />Template:Rp The present-day Ascan Avenue in Forest Hills is named after Ascan Bakus.

Margaret Sage, the founder of the Russell Sage Foundation, bought Template:Convert of land from the Cord Meyer Development Company in 1908. This land was to be used for "Forest Hills Gardens", a development on the southern side of Forest Hills.<ref name=":1" />Template:Rp

ArchitectureEdit

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Homes in Forest Hills Gardens showing typical Tudor Revival architecture

Grosvenor Atterbury, a renowned architect, along with his associate architect and Forest Hills resident, John Almy Tompkins II, was given the commission to design Forest Hills Gardens. The neighborhood was planned on the model of the garden communities of England, with its own inn, garage, and post office. It also included narrow, winding roads to limit through-traffic.

There are many Tudor Revival homes in Forest Hills, often featuring stucco walls and red Ludowici clay tile roofs.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> The most expansive buildings are in Forest Hills Gardens, but many are located in the area loosely bounded by 68th Avenue on the north; 72nd Road on the south; 108th Street on the west; and Grand Central Parkway on the east.<ref name=":1" />Template:Rp<ref>* The Garden City Movement Template:Webarchive

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The construction of this area used a prefabricated building technique. Each house was built from approximately 170 standardized precast concrete panels, fabricated off-site and positioned by crane.<ref>Christopher Gray "Designing for High and Low", The New York Times, October 22, 2009. Accessed August 7, 2012.</ref> The houses were mostly constructed between 1910 and 1917.<ref name=":1" />Template:Rp

Growth and expansionEdit

The Long Island Rail Road opened a station in Forest Hills in 1911,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and the Queens Boulevard trolley line opened two years later.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The LIRR station was built with a brick courtyard, a clock tower, and arch-filled underpasses, fitting in with the Forest Hills Gardens section of the neighborhood.<ref name=":1" />Template:Rp Since the railroad and trolley both connected to Manhattan, the presence of these two transportation options spurred development in Forest Hills.<ref name=":1" />Template:Rp

In 1914, the West Side Tennis Club moved from Manhattan to Forest Hills Gardens.<ref name=":1" />Template:Rp They constructed the Forest Hills Tennis Stadium, a stadium with approximately 13,000 seats, in 1923.<ref name=":1" />Template:Rp<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The U.S. Open and its predecessor national championships were held there until 1978, making Forest Hills synonymous with tennis for generations.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Forest Hills also had a golfing presence for a short time. The Queens Valley Golf Club started constructing a golf course in the neighborhood in 1922<ref>Template:Cite newsTemplate:Dead linkTemplate:Cbignore</ref> and it was open by 1924.<ref name=":1" />Template:Rp However, the club was closed in 1938 so that developers could build housing atop the site of the course.<ref>Template:Cite newsTemplate:Dead linkTemplate:Cbignore</ref>

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Queens Boulevard, looking eastward in 2006

Queens Boulevard was widened in the 1920s.<ref name=":1" />Template:Rp Planning for a Queens Boulevard subway line started around this time. There were proposals for two stations in Forest Hills: an express station serving all trains on 71st Avenue, and a local station at 75th Avenue.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> During the late 1920s, in anticipation of the arrival of the subway, land was bought by developers and was built up.<ref name=":0">Template:Cite book</ref> Zoning laws were changed to allow fifteen-story apartment buildings to be built,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> and made the neighborhood of Forest Hills a more desirable place to live, especially as it was an express stop. Queens Borough President George Harvey predicted that the introduction of the subway to Forest Hills would turn Queens Boulevard into the "Park Avenue of Queens."<ref name=":0" />Template:Rp Excavation for the line started in 1931,<ref name=":1" />Template:Rp and the two subway stops in Forest Hills opened in 1936 along with six other stations on the Queens Boulevard line.<ref>* Template:Cite news

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The population nearly doubled in the late 1920s, going from 9,500 residents in 1927 to 18,207 residents three years later. By 1940, after the subway opened, the population had increased to 32,500 residents.<ref name=":1" />Template:Rp By this time, development had largely stopped due to World War II, and about 25 empty lots in Forest Hills Gardens were developed after the war. At the same time, the single-family houses in Forest Hills were being razed to create new apartment buildings. The land in Forest Hills Gardens was fully developed by the 1960s, but there would still be empty lots in Forest Hills itself until the mid-1990s.<ref name=":1" />Template:Rp

Later historyEdit

In 1972, residents protested against Forest Hills Houses, a proposed public housing development with three 24-story buildings at 62nd Drive and 108th Street. It was part of Mayor John Lindsay "scatter-site" plan to construct public housing in neighborhoods that had none (as opposed to concentrating public housing in poor neighborhoods).<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> White middle-class residents believed that the public housing would depreciate the community's quality of life because poor residents would move into the housing. Advocates for the project accused residents of racism, since the proposed development's residents would be mostly people of minority races.<ref name=":2">Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Lindsay garnered significant opposition due to the controversy surrounding Forest Hills Houses. Mario Cuomo, a lawyer and the future Governor of New York, was assigned to mediate the dispute and succeeded in halving the size of the project. The New York City Housing Authority ultimately implemented a rigorous screening process for prospective residents of Forest Hills Houses, with quotas for elderly and poorer tenants.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":1" />Template:Rp

During the 1970s and 1980s, the neighborhood became more racially diverse. Discriminatory covenants for prospective Forest Hills Gardens residents were lifted, and immigrants from Iran, India, Israel, and the Soviet Union started residing in Forest Hills.<ref name=":1" />Template:Rp

DemographicsEdit

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Post office, which displays a sports theme

Based on data from the 2010 United States Census, the population of Forest Hills was 86,364, an increase of 1,318 (1.5%) from the 85,046 counted in 2000. Covering an area of Template:Convert, the neighborhood had a population density of Template:Convert.<ref name=PLP5>Table PL-P5 NTA: Total Population and Persons Per Acre – New York City Neighborhood Tabulation Areas*, 2010, Population Division – New York City Department of City Planning, February 2012. Accessed June 14, 2016.</ref>

The racial makeup of the neighborhood was 58.3% (48,822) White, 2.5% (2,086) African American, 0.1% (63) Native American, 24.2% (20,233) Asian, 0.0% (22) Pacific Islander, 0.4% (373) from other races, and 2.1% (1,719) from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 12.4% (10,410) of the population.<ref name="PLP3A">Table PL-P3A NTA: Total Population by Mutually Exclusive Race and Hispanic Origin – New York City Neighborhood Tabulation Areas*, 2010, Population Division – New York City Department of City Planning, March 29, 2011. Accessed June 14, 2016.</ref>

The entirety of Community Board 6, which comprises Forest Hills and Rego Park, had 115,119 inhabitants as of NYC Health's 2018 Community Health Profile, with an average life expectancy of 85.4 years.<ref name="CHP2018">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>Template:Rp This is higher than the median life expectancy of 81.2 for all New York City neighborhoods.<ref name=":21">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>Template:Rp<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The plurality of inhabitants are middle-aged and elderly adults: 31% are between the ages of 25–44, 28% between 45–64, and 19% over 64. The ratio of young and college-aged residents was lower, at 16% and 5% respectively.<ref name="CHP2018" />Template:Rp

As of 2017, the median household income in Community Board 4 was $75,447.<ref name="CB6PUMA">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In 2018, an estimated 16% of Forest Hills and Rego Park residents lived in poverty, compared to 19% in all of Queens and 20% in all of New York City. One in seventeen residents (6%) was unemployed, compared to 8% in Queens and 9% in New York City. Rent burden, or the percentage of residents who have difficulty paying their rent, is 50% in Forest Hills and Rego Park, lower than the boroughwide and citywide rates of 53% and 51% respectively. Based on this calculation, Template:As of, Forest Hills and Rego Park is considered to be high-income relative to the rest of the city and not gentrifying.<ref name="CHP2018" />Template:Rp

Land useEdit

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Forest Hills Gardens, part of Forest Hills
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The Church-in-the-Gardens in Forest Hills Gardens
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Grace Baptist with decorative streetlamp in Forest Hills Gardens, Queens

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. Until the 1970s, it was subject to restrictive covenants which, while containing no explicit economic, social or racial restrictions,<ref>S. Klaus, A Modern Arcadia, p. 115</ref> effectively excluded "working-class people", as noted by Eric P. Nash in his 2002 New York Times book review of A Modern Arcadia.<ref>Eric P. Nash "Books In Brief: Nonfiction; Ye Olde Borough of Queens", The New York Times, September 1, 2002. Accessed June 1, 2022.</ref> Forest Hills Gardens was named "Best Community" in 2007 by Cottage Living magazine.<ref>Ward, Logan; and Hanson, David. "Our Top 10 Cottage Communities for 2007", Cottage Living. Accessed September 4, 2007.</ref> 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.

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.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> 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.<ref name="ql031809">Template:Cite news</ref>

On the northwestern edge of Forest Hills, on 62nd Drive and 108th Street immediately adjacent to the Long Island Expressway, is the Forest Hills Co-op Houses, a New York City Housing Authority low-income housing project. Its construction provoked controversy<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> among the residents in the more prestigious areas of Forest Hills when it was constructed in the early 1970s.<ref name=":2"/>

The southeastern portion of Forest Hills contains Forest Hills South, a complex of 7 Georgian apartment buildings centered around a private English garden, which was formerly a mapped portion of 113th Street prior to the complex's construction in 1939. This enclave was designed by Philip Birnbaum.<ref>Template:Cite aia5</ref><ref name="Perlman Springer 2015 p. 27">Template:Cite book</ref>

Philip Birnbaum and Alfred Kaskel also designed and constructed numerous apartment buildings scattered throughout Forest Hills.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> These include the Grover Cleveland, the Van Buren Apartments, the Thomas Jefferson, the Maplewood, the Richard Apartments, the Stephen Apartments, the James Madison, the Cedar Apartments, the Howard Apartments, the James Monroe, the Nathan Hale, the St. Regis, the Roanoke, and the Kennedy House. Birnbaum and Kaskel's buildings largely remain standing, and are distinguished by their spacious lobbies, interior courtyards with fountains, curved brick corner terraces, and sunlit exposures.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="Perlman Springer 2015 p. 27"/> Other notable high-rise apartment buildings include the Continental (on 108th Street), the Pinnacle, Parker Towers, the Windsor and a 17-story luxury condo building completed in 2014, the Aston.

Points of interestEdit

Austin Street is a busy, modern street with shops, cafes, restaurants, and other stores that acts as the center of Forest Hills. It has become a place people visit from other neighborhoods because of its charm.

Two monuments are erected in Forest Hills Gardens: One is a tribute to the victims of World War I, and the other is the mast of the Columbia, the winner of the America's Cup yacht races in both 1899 and 1901.Template:Citation needed

The Church-in-the-Gardens, St. Luke's Episcopal Church, and United States Post Office are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.<ref name="nris">Template:NRISref</ref>

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Panoramic view of Station Square, 2016

Police and crimeEdit

Forest Hills and Rego Park are patrolled by the 112th Precinct of the NYPD, located at 68-40 Austin Street.<ref name="NYPD 112th Precinct">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The 112th Precinct ranked 6th safest out of 69 patrol areas for per-capita crime in 2010. The area's low crime rate is attributed to its seclusion and reputation as a "suburb within the city".<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Template:As of, with a non-fatal assault rate of 14 per 100,000 people, Forest Hills and Rego Park's rate of violent crimes per capita is less than that of the city as a whole. The incarceration rate of 102 per 100,000 people is lower than that of the city as a whole.<ref name="CHP2018" />Template:Rp

The 112th Precinct has a lower crime rate than in the 1990s, with crimes across all categories having decreased by 91.5% between 1990 and 2018. The precinct reported 0 murders, 18 rapes, 41 robberies, 53 felony assaults, 69 burglaries, 403 grand larcenies, and 37 grand larcenies auto in 2018.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Fire safetyEdit

Forest Hills contains a New York City Fire Department (FDNY) fire station, Engine Co. 305/Ladder Co. 151, at 111-02 Queens Boulevard.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite FDNY locations</ref>

HealthEdit

Template:As of, preterm births and births to teenage mothers are less common in Forest Hills and Rego Park than in other places citywide. In Forest Hills and Rego Park, there were 66 preterm births per 1,000 live births (compared to 87 per 1,000 citywide), and 4.6 births to teenage mothers per 1,000 live births (compared to 19.3 per 1,000 citywide).<ref name="CHP2018" />Template:Rp Forest Hills and Rego Park have a low population of residents who are uninsured. In 2018, this population of uninsured residents was estimated to be 11%, slightly lower than the citywide rate of 12%.<ref name="CHP2018" />Template:Rp

The concentration of fine particulate matter, the deadliest type of air pollutant, in Forest Hills and Rego Park is Template:Convert, equal to the city average.<ref name="CHP2018" />Template:Rp Ten percent of Forest Hills and Rego Park residents are smokers, which is lower than the city average of 14% of residents being smokers.<ref name="CHP2018" />Template:Rp In Forest Hills and Rego Park, 19% of residents are obese, 7% are diabetic, and 20% have high blood pressure—compared to the citywide averages of 20%, 14%, and 24% respectively.<ref name="CHP2018" />Template:Rp In addition, 11% of children are obese, compared to the citywide average of 20%.<ref name="CHP2018" />Template:Rp

Ninety-three percent of residents eat some fruits and vegetables every day, which is higher than the city's average of 87%. In 2018, 82% of residents described their health as "good", "very good", or "excellent", higher than the city's average of 78%.<ref name="CHP2018" />Template:Rp For every supermarket in Forest Hills and Rego Park, there are 5 bodegas.<ref name="CHP2018" />Template:Rp

Long Island Jewish Forest Hills is located in Forest Hills.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Post office and ZIP CodeEdit

Forest Hills is covered by ZIP Code 11375.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The United States Post Office operates the Forest Hills Station at 106-28 Queens Boulevard<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and the Parkside Station at 10119 Metropolitan Avenue.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

EducationEdit

Forest Hills and Rego Park generally have a higher percentage of college-educated residents than the rest of the city Template:As of. The majority of residents (62%) have a college education or higher, while 8% have less than a high school education and 30% are high school graduates or have some college education. By contrast, 39% of Queens residents and 43% of city residents have a college education or higher.<ref name="CHP2018" />Template:Rp The percentage of Forest Hills and Rego Park students excelling in math rose from 42% in 2000 to 61% in 2011, and reading achievement rose from 48% to 49% during the same time period.<ref name=":17">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Forest Hills and Rego Park's rate of elementary school student absenteeism is less than the rest of New York City. In Forest Hills and Rego Park, 10% of elementary school students missed twenty or more days per school year, lower than the citywide average of 20%.<ref name=":21" />Template:Rp<ref name="CHP2018" />Template:Rp Additionally, 91% of high school students in Forest Hills and Rego Park graduate on time, more than the citywide average of 75%.<ref name="CHP2018" />Template:Rp

Queens Community House provides free English classes to immigrants.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

K–12 schoolsEdit

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Our Lady Queen of Martyrs Roman Catholic Church
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Forest Hills High School
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Russell Sage Junior High School

Public schoolsEdit

Forest Hills contains the following public elementary schools which serve grades PK–5 unless otherwise indicated:

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The following public middle schools serve Forest Hills:

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There are no zoned high schools in New York City. The following high schools in Forest Hills serve grades 9–12:

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Private schoolsEdit

Private schools in Forest Hills include two Catholic schools (Our Lady of Mercy and Our Lady Queen of Martyrs) and The Kew-Forest School, an independent school.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Also located in Forest Hills is Yeshiva Gedolah Lubavitch, an ultra orthodox Chabad high school and branch of Tomchei Temimim.<ref>About Us, Yeshiva Gedolah Lubavitch. Accessed June 14, 2017.</ref>

CollegesEdit

Bramson ORT College was an undergraduate college operated by the American branch of the Jewish charity World ORT. Its main campus was in Forest Hills, with a satellite campus in Brooklyn. It closed in February 2017 after failing to meet standards set by the New York State Education Department Board of Regents and losing its accreditation.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Touro College/NYSCAS has a branch location in Forest Hills. Plaza College, a small regionally-accredited college offering associates and bachelors degrees, is also located in Forest Hills.

LibrariesEdit

The Queens Public Library operates two branches in Forest Hills. The Forest Hills branch is located at 108-19 71st Avenue,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> while the North Forest Park branch is located at 98-27 Metropolitan Avenue.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

TransportationEdit

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Public transportationEdit

The following MTA Regional Bus Operations bus routes serve Forest Hills:<ref name=busqns>Template:Cite NYC bus map</ref>

The following New York City Subway stations serve Forest Hills:<ref>Template:NYCS const</ref>

The neighborhood also has a Long Island Rail Road commuter rail station: the Forest Hills station. The southern part of the neighborhood is also close to the Kew Gardens station in neighboring Kew Gardens.<ref name=neigh-map>Template:Cite NYC neighborhood map
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RoadEdit

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JetBlue's former headquarters on Queens Boulevard

The main thoroughfare is Queens Boulevard. The street's width and complexity have led to a large number of pedestrian deaths, earning it the moniker "Boulevard of Death".<ref>Gartland, Michael. "City to spend $100M on 'Boulevard of Death' road revamp", New York Post, July 24, 2015. Accessed July 5, 2016.</ref> Metropolitan Avenue is known for its antique shops. 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.<ref>Marzlock, Ron. "The Backus clan, who named Ascan Ave.", Queens Chronicle, October 25, 2012. Accessed July 5, 2016. "Frederick had a son, Ascan II, born in 1878 and named in honor of his immigrant grandfather. In 1909, when Frederick Backus cut a road from Queens Boulevard to Metropolitan Avenue, he named it Ascan Avenue, also in memory of his father the farming king."</ref>

Parks and recreationEdit

Forest Hills is bordered by two of the largest parks in Queens managed by the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation: the Template:Convert Flushing Meadows–Corona Park, which is the site of two World's Fairs (in 1939 and 1964) and the iconic Unisphere;<ref>"Flushing Meadows Corona Park". Retrieved September 29, 2014.</ref> as well as the Template:Convert Forest Park.<ref>"Forest Park". Retrieved September 29, 2014.</ref> Within Forest Hills, parks and playgrounds include the Yellowstone Municipal Park – Katzman Playground (located on Yellowstone Boulevard, between 68th Avenue and 68th Road);<ref>"Yellowstone Park". Retrieved September 29, 2014.</ref> the Annadale Playground (located on Yellowstone Boulevard, between 64th Road and 65th Avenue);<ref>"Annadale Playground". Retrieved September 29, 2014.</ref> the Willow Lake Playground (located off the Grand Central Parkway, between 71st and 72nd Avenues);<ref>"Willow Lake Playground". Retrieved September 29, 2014.</ref> the Ehrenreich-Austin Playground (located on Austin Street, between 76th Avenue and 76th Drive);<ref>"Ehrenreich-Austin Playground". Retrieved September 29, 2014.</ref> and the Russell Sage Playground (located on 68th Avenue, between Booth and Austin Streets).<ref>"Russell Sage Playground", New York City Department of Parks and Recreation. Accessed September 29, 2014.</ref>

Access to Flushing Meadows-Corona Park is restricted due to the fact that the Grand Central Parkway bisects the neighborhood and the park proper. Pedestrian access exists over the Grand Central Parkway at the Horace Harding Expressway, 64th Avenue, Jewel Avenue, and 72nd Road. A shuttered entrance at 78th Avenue, which previously lead to Willow Lake and provided pedestrian access to neighboring Kew Gardens Hills has been closed since 2001.

In popular cultureEdit

SportsEdit

The U.S. Open tennis tournament was first held at the West Side Tennis Club from 1915 until 1977, when it was relocated to the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows Park, about Template:Convert away.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> 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.Template:Citation needed

FilmEdit

A pivotal scene in Alfred Hitchcock's 1951 film Strangers on a Train, in which Farley Granger's character is a professional tennis player, features a lengthy championship game at the West Side Tennis Club.Template:Citation needed

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LiteratureEdit

Forest Hills was featured as the home setting for the comic book superhero Spider-Man, where under the alias Peter Parker he grew up at 20 Ingram Street (Template:Coord). In the comics the home was depicted as a modest, two-story boarding house run by his Aunt May.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref name=kempton>Kempton, Sally. "Spiderman's [sic] Dilemma: Super-Anti-Hero in Forest Hills", The Village Voice, April 1, 1965.</ref><ref>Glaser, Brian. "Q+A: Joe Quesada". Visual Arts Journal. School of Visual Arts. Fall 2011. pp. 50–55.</ref>

MusicEdit

The Ramones were formed in Forest Hills. The band was recognized with the designation in 2017 of Ramones Way at 67th Avenue and 110th Street, in front of Forest Hills High School.<ref>Reszutek, Dana. "Ramones Way coming to Forest Hills, Queens", AM New York, October 4, 2016. Accessed June 21, 2017. "The Ramones will be honored in their hometown of Forest Hills, Queens, with a street of their own, the band announced on its official website. Ramones Way will be located in front of Forest Hills High School, the alma mater of original band members Johnny, Joey, Dee Dee and Tommy."</ref>

Simon and Garfunkel both graduated from Forest Hills High School in 1958. The duo performed at Forest Hills Stadium in 1966, 1967, 1968, and two nights in 1970. Paul Simon returned once again to Forest Hills Stadium in 2016 during his Homeward Bound farewell tour.<ref>Perlman, Michael (October 3, 2018 ). "Simon & Garfunkel's strong ties to Forest Hills" Template:Webarchive. Forest Hills Times.</ref>

Billy Eichner wrote the parody song "Forest Hills State of Mind" about the neighborhood.<ref>Nolan, Hamilton. "'Forest Hills State of Mind'" Template:Webarchive, Gawker, January 18, 2010. Accessed December 8, 2021.</ref>

Notable peopleEdit

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  • Jacob Arabo (born 1965), jewelry and watch designer who founded Jacob & Co.<ref>Sales, Nancy Jo. "Is Hip-Hop's Jeweler on the Rocks?", Vanity Fair, October 17, 2006. Accessed July 5, 2016. "Their driver, Alex, pulled out of the driveway of their multi-million-dollar brick Colonial in leafy Forest Hills, Queens, 20 minutes from Manhattan."</ref>
  • Awkwafina (born 1988), rapper and actress<ref>Truong, Peggy. "Awkwafina Cherishes Buffalo Wild Wings and Other Forest Hills Chains", Vice, December 15, 2015. Accessed July 5, 2016. "If you ever run into Nora Lum—better known as the rapper and comedian Awkwafina—don't assume she's from Flushing. She gets that a lot. Instead, ask if she has time to hit up the Buffalo Wild Wings or one of the other chains in Forest Hills, where she grew up and where her folks still live."</ref>
  • Hank Azaria (born 1964), actor and voice artist<ref>Schillinger, Liesl.

"Be It a Cabin, High-Rise or Ranch, There's No Place Like It", The New York Times, December 24, 2006. Accessed October 24, 2007. "For the actor Hank Azaria, the home was a three-bedroom apartment on the 14th floor of a towering complex in Forest Hills."</ref>

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"Tony Colvin moved her children to New York in the late 1960s. They settled in Forest Hills, Queens, where Douglas met the future members of the Ramones, described in Lobotomy as 'the obvious creeps of the neighborhood.'"</ref>

    • Joey Ramone (1951–2001), lead singer and songwriter of the Ramones<ref>Powers, Ann. "Joey Ramone, Punk's Influential Yelper, Dies at 49", The New York Times, April 16, 2001. Accessed June 2, 2009. "Born Jeffrey Hyman in Forest Hills, Queens, Mr. Ramone grew up a sensitive outcast in a bohemian family."</ref>
    • Johnny Ramone (1948–2004), guitarist of the Ramones<ref>Silverman, Stephen M. "Punk Rock Legend Johnny Ramone Dies at 55", People, September 16, 2004; accessed June 2, 2009. "Johnny Ramone, 55, was born John Cummings and grew up in Forest Hills, N.Y., soaking up Rock in the '60s but then moving to an edgier sound."</ref>
    • Tommy Ramone (1952–2014), drummer and record producer of the Ramones<ref>Coleman, Miriam. "Tommy Ramone Dead at 65Drummer was last surviving original member of the Ramones", Rolling Stone, July 12, 2014. Accessed February 8, 2018. "Born Erdelyi Tamas in Budapest in 1949, Ramone emigrated to America in 1957. He grew up in Forest Hills, Queens, where he began playing music with John Cummings (a.k.a. Johnny Ramone) while he was in high school, In 1974, Erdelyi and Cummings joined together with two fellow Forest Hills compatriots, singer Jeffrey Hyman (Joey) and bassist Douglas Colvin (Dee Dee), and began playing simple, rapid-fire punk under a common surname."</ref>
  • Wilhelm Reich (1897–1957), psychiatrist known for his theories of Orgone energy<ref>Elkind, David. "Wilhelm Reich – The Psychoanalyst as Revolutionary; Wilhelm Reich", The New York Times, April 18, 1971. Accessed July 5, 2016. "soon after his arrival in 1939, Reich rented a house in Forest Hills, where he quickly resumed the pattern of activities he had followed in Oslo, Berlin and Vienna.</ref>
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