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Coordinates: 40°42′58″N 73°51′00″W / 40.71611°N 73.85000°W Forest Hills is an aﬄuent neighborhood located in the New York City borough of Queens.[1] Originally, the area was referred to as “Whitepot”.[2] Forest Hills is bounded by 62nd Drive, Thornton Place, and Selfridge Street to the west, Metropolitan Avenue to the south, Union Turnpike to the east, and the Grand Central Parkway to the north. Forest Hills Gardens, a place within Forest Hills with many Tudor-style houses, is bounded by Burns Street to the north, Union Turnpike to the east, Greenway South and Harrow Street to the west, and Tennis Place and Continental Ave to the west. Forest Hills and For- Southeastern portion of Austin Street with typical Queens six- est Hills Gardens contains Station Square, shown in the story red brick apartment buildings on one side and residential picture at right. homes on the other

1 History

Austin Street, the main shopping area

The development of adjacent Forest Park, a park on the southern end of Forest Hills, began in 1895. Starting in 1896, the landscaping ﬁrm of Olmsted, Olmsted & Eliot was contracted to provide a plan for the park.[3](p428) Queens Boulevard, looking eastward In 1906, 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, The stated plan was to build good low-income housing Sarah V. Bolmer, and James Van Siclen) and then re- and improve living conditions of the working poor, but named the aggregated 600 acres Forest Hills. There is a the resulting huge property values made this claim to- street named after Ascan Bakus, Ascan Avenue, in For- tally impractical. Grosvenor Atterbury, a renowned ar- est Hills today. In 1909, Margaret Sage, who founded the chitect, was given the commission to design Forest Hills Russell Sage Foundation, bought 142 acres (0.57 km2) Gardens. The neighborhood was planned on the model of land from the Cord Meyer Development Company. of the garden communities of England. As a result, there

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are many Tudor-style homes in Forest Hills, some more and high-rise apartment buildings. South of the Long Is- sprawling ones located in Forest Hills Gardens while most land Rail Road, the Forest Hills Gardens area is a private are located in the Cord-Meyer section (loosely bounded community that features some of the most expensive res- by 68th Avenue on the north; 72nd Road on the south; idential properties in Queens County. It was subject to 108th Street on the west; and Grand Central Parkway restrictive covenants until the 1970s, which contained no on the east).[4] The construction of this area used a explicit economic, social or racial restrictions[6] even if prefabricated building technique; each house was built “working-class people” were said to be excluded by Eric from approximately 170 standardized precast concrete P. Nash in a 2002 New York Times article, in his review panels, fabricated oﬀ-site and positioned by crane.[5] In of A Modern Arcadia.[7] Forest Hills Gardens was named 1913, the West Side Tennis Club moved from Manhattan “Best Community” in 2007 by Cottage Living Maga- to Forest Hills Gardens. The U.S. Open and its predeces- zine.[8] The adjacent Van Court community also contains sor national championships were held there until 1978, a number of detached single-family homes. There are making Forest Hills synonymous with tennis for genera- also attached townhouses near the Westside Tennis Cen- tions. ter and detached frame houses near Metropolitan Avenue. Finally, there are a number of apartment buildings scat- tered throughout the community. The most notable high- 2 Land use rise apartment buildings are The Continental on 108th St, Kennedy House, the Pinnacle, and the Windsor. On the northwestern edge of Forest Hills, on 62nd Drive and 108th Street, immediately adjacent to the Long Is- land Expressway is a NYCHA (New York City Hous- ing Authority) low-income housing project that provoked controversy[9] among the residents in the more prestigious areas of Forest Hills when it was constructed in the early 1970s. 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 im- pact on the architectural integrity of the area.[10] How- ever, the Bukharian Jewish community, whose members Forest Hills Gardens, part of Forest Hills 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.[11]

3 Points of interest

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 Cen- ter in Flushing Meadows Park, about 4 miles (6.4 km) away. When the Open was played at the tennis stadium, the tournament was commonly referred to merely as For- est 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 A church in Forest Hills Gardens game at the Club, with distinctive shots of the surround- ing community. The Tennis Stadium, which hosted nu- The southern part of Forest Hills contains a particularly merous music concerts including The Beatles after the diverse mixture of upscale housing, ranging from single- U.S. Open departed for Flushing Meadows, resumed family houses, attached townhouses, and both low-rise hosting music concerts during the summer of 2013 when 4.1 K-12 Schools 3 the British rock band Mumford & Sons played there to an overflowing crowd. Stadium officials have said they will now host as many as six music or cultural events at the Stadium each season. 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.

Panoramic view of the skyline

Russell Sage Junior High School 4 Education • P.S. 101 School In The Gardens

• P.S. 144 Col. Jeromus Remsen School

• P.S. 175 Lynn Gross Discovery School

• P.S. 196 Grand Central Parkway

• P.S. 220 Edward Mandel

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 Expedi- tionary Learning School (MELS)), “a school for a sustain- Our Lady Queen of Martyrs Roman Catholic Church able 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 or Queens Metropoli- tan 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 ad- mission 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.[12] Traditionally many more students from J.H.S. 190 choose to study at Stuyvesant High School and Townsend Har- ris High School, in addition to the Bronx High School Forest Hills High School of Science.[13] Numerous students from Forest Hills also choose to attend middle and high school at the Forest Hills is served by the New York City Department Baccalaureate School for Global Education, a public of Education. school in Astoria, which teaches grades 7 through 12 and follows the International Baccalaureate curriculum. Many of the students from outside the district accepted 4.1 K-12 Schools to attend Forest Hills High School are those who ap- plied to either the school’s Law & Humanities program, Pupils attend several public diﬀerent elementary Schools, or the Carl Sagan program in accelerated math and sci- including: ence. FHHS began admitting students by audition to their 4 7 PARKS AND RECREATION

Academy of Instructional Music and Performing Arts in 2005.[14] 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.

4.2 Colleges

Bramson ORT College is an undergraduate college operated by the American branch of the Jewish charity World Forest Hills – 71st Avenue (IND Queens Boulevard Line) subway ORT. Its main campus is in Forest Hills, with a satel- station in 2007 lite campus in Brooklyn. Touro College/NYSCAS has a branch location in Forest Hills. 6 Transportation

The main thoroughfare is Queens Boulevard, which is 4.3 Public libraries very wide. Metropolitan Avenue is known for its an- tique shops. The commercial heart of Forest Hills is a The Forest Hills Library and the North Forest Park mile-long stretch of Austin Street between Yellowstone Library, operated by Queens Library, are in Forest Boulevard and Ascan Avenue: the latter thoroughfare Hills.[15][16] was named in 1909 by developer Frederick Backus for his own father, Ascan Backus, II. Forest Hills has the multiple-service Forest Hills–71st Avenue subway station (E F M R trains) at the intersection of Continental Av- 5 Demographics enue and Queens Boulevard. The local 75th Avenue stop (E F trains) is also in the area, and some entrance/exits of the express Kew Gardens – Union Turnpike station (E F trains) service the southeastern portion of Forest Hills. The neighborhood also has two commuter train stations, the Forest Hills and Kew Gardens railway stations of the Long Island Rail Road. Several MTA Bus-branded buses, including the Q23, Q60, and Q64 local buses and QM4, QM11, QM12, and QM18, serve the area (no New York City Bus routes serve the area, however).[17]

7 Parks and recreation

Forest Hills is bordered by two of the more sizable parks Post office, which displays a sporting theme in Queens managed by the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation: the 1,255 acres (5.08 km2) Flushing Meadows–Corona Park, which is the site of The neighborhood is disproportionately home to the two World’s Fairs (in 1939 and 1964) and the iconic upper-middle class, of whom the wealthiest often live in Unisphere;[18] as well as the 544 acres (2.20 km2) Forest the Forest Hills Gardens section. Park.[19] Within Forest Hills, some of the more popular Historically, Forest Hills has had many German and parks and playgrounds include the Yellowstone Munici- American Jewish residents. This is not as true today, as pal Park – Katzman Playground (located on Yellowstone most of the Jewish residents are Bukharians from Uzbek- Boulevard, between 68th Avenue and 68th Road);[20] istan, a former USSR nation. Additionally, the neigh- the Annadale Playground (located on Yellowstone Boule- borhood is now 24% Asian, 12% Latino, and 4% black. vard, between 64th Road and 65th Avenue);[21] the Originally, the area was called Whitepot.[2] Willow Lake Playground (located off the Grand Cen- 5 tral Parkway, between 71st and 72nd Avenues);[22] the • Steve Hofstetter (born 1979), comedian/radio Ehrenreich-Austin Playground (located on Austin Street, personality[40] between 76th Avenue and 76th Drive);[23] and the Rus- • [41] sell Sage Playground (located on 68th Avenue, between John V. Hogan (1890–1960), radio pioneer [24] Booth and Austin Streets). • John Francis Hylan (1848–1936), Mayor of New York City (1918–1925)[42] 8 In popular culture • Ethel D. Jacobs (1910–2001), thoroughbred horse owner and breeder, wife of Hirsch Jacobs[43] Forest Hills was featured as the home setting for fictional • Hirsch Jacobs (1904–1970), thoroughbred jockey, comic book character Spider-Man.[25][26] Loubet Street, husband of Ethel D. Jacobs[44] in southern Forest Hills, is used in some minor movies. • Donna Karan (born 1948), fashion designer[45] • Helen Keller (1880–1968), lecturer, author, 9 Notable people fundraiser, activist[46] • Alan King (1927–2004), actor/comedian [47] • Jacob Arabo, founder of a jewelry company • Andrea King (1919–2003), actress[48] • Awkwafina (born 1989), rapper • David Krumholtz (born 1978), actor[49][50] • Hank Azaria (born 1964), actor and voice artist[27] • Gary Kurfirst (1947–2009), concert promoter and • Walter Becker (born 1950), half of the musical duo record producer[51] Steely Dan[28] • Michael Landon (1936–1991), actor known for his • Jimmy Breslin (born 1930), journalist roles on Bonanza and Little House on the Prairie[52] • Joseph Bowler (born 1928), artist and illustrator[29] • Harvey J. Levin (1924–1992), internationally recog- nized pioneer of communications economics, holder • Michael A. Burstein (born 1970), science fiction of Long Island’s first professorial chair[53][54] writer[30] • Jack Lew (born 1955), U.S. Secretary of the Trea- • Dale Carnegie (1888–1955), self-improvement lec- sury turer and author of How to Win Friends and Influ- ence People[31] lived at 27 Wendover Rd in Forest • Trygve Lie (1896–1968), Secretary-General of the Hills. United Nations

• David Caruso, (born 1956), actor in CSI: Miami, and • Jack McAuliﬀe (1866–1937), world lightweight NYPD Blue[32] boxing champion[55]

• Candy Darling (1944–1974), Warhol Superstar who • Chieli Minucci (born 1958), musician appeared in a number of his ﬁlms[33] • Min Xiao-Fen (born 1961), pipa player and vocalist [56] • John R. Dilworth (born 1963), animator and creator of Cartoon Network's Courage the Cowardly Dog. • Michele “Big Mike” Miranda (1896–1973), • Sergei Dovlatov (1941–1990), Russian short story consigliere of the Genovese crime family and one writer and novelist of the most powerful New York gangsters in the 1950s and 1960s[57] • Billy Eichner (born 1978), comedian, actor, and • host of Billy on the Street [34] Lore Noto (1923–2002), Oﬀ-Broadway producer • Carroll O'Connor (1924–2001), actor, best known • Geraldine Ferraro (1935–2011), member of U.S. for his role as Archie Bunker on All in the Family[58] House of Representatives, television personality[35] • Rick Overton (born 1954), actor and comedian[59] • Art Garfunkel (born 1941), singer-songwriter[36][37] • Susan Polgar (born 1969), chess grandmaster[60] • Ernie Grunfeld (born 1955), former player and general manager of the New York Knicks[38] • The Ramones, seminal punk rock band: • Alan Hevesi (born 1940), disgraced former • Dee Dee Ramone (1951–2002), bassist and Comptroller of New York[39] songwriter of the Ramones[61] 6 10 REFERENCES

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