Forest Hills is the most residential neighborhood in the Queens region of New York City. Initially, the area was referred to as "Whitepot". The northern, eastern and southern boundaries are the Long Island Expressway, the Grand Central Parkway, and the Union Turnpike, respectively. Google Maps shows a rough western border along 102nd Street, 67th Avenue, and the former Long Island Rail Road Rockaway Beach Branch; while the Encyclopedia of New York City defines the western boundary as Junction Boulevard and former Rockaway Beach Branch.
Forest Hills has a great tennis tradition, with Forest Hills Stadium hosting the US Open until 1978 and the West Side Tennis Club offers a pure grass field for its members. The lively Austin Road unites the Forest Hills and offers many restaurants and chain stores. Forest Hills borders Flushing Meadows-Corona Park and Forest Park.
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Development
The development of an adjacent Forest Park, a park at the southern edge of Forest Hills, began in 1895. Beginning in 1896, Olmsted, Olmsted & Eliot contracted to provide plans for the park.
In 1906, the Cord Meyer Development Company, headed by Brooklyn lawyer Cord Meyer, bought a field adjacent to six fields (owned by Ascan Bakus, Casper Joost-Springsteen, Horatio N. Squire, Abram VS Lott, Sarah V. Bolmer, and James Van Siclen). The company later renamed the 600 acre aggregate (240Ã, ha) "Forest Hills", after Forest Park. A single family home, designed by architects such as Robert Tappan and William Patterson, is built on an area of ​​600 hectares. The streets of the Forest Hills were built in 1910. Ascans Avenue in Forest Hills is now named according to Ascans Bakus.
Margaret Sage, founder of the Russell Sage Foundation, bought a 142 acre (57 ha) estate from the Cord Meyer Development Company in 1908. This land will be used for "Forest Hills Gardens", a development on the southern side of the Forest. Hills. Grosvenor Atterbury, a famous architect, was commissioned to design the Forest Hills Gardens. The neighborhood is planned on a UK community park model, with its own inn, garage, and post office. It also includes narrow and winding roads to limit traffic. As a result, there are many Tudor-style houses in the Forest Hills. Wider is located in the Forest Hills Gardens, but most are located in a section bounded by 68th Avenue to the north; 72nd Road to the south; 108th Road to the west; and Grand Central Parkway to the east. Development of this area using prefabricated building techniques; each house is built of about 170 standard precast concrete panels, made out of location and positioned by a crane. The houses were mostly built between 1910 and 1917.
Long Island Rail Road opened a station in Forest Hills in 1911, and the Queens Boulevard trolley line opened two years later. The LIRR station is built with brick courtyards, clock towers, and underpasses filled with arches, matching the Forest Hills Gardens section of the neighborhood. Since trains and trolleys connect to Manhattan, the presence of these two transport options spur development in Forest Hills.
Growth
In 1914, the West Side Tennis Club moved from Manhattan to Forest Hills Gardens. They built the Forest Hills Tennis Stadium, a stadium with about 13,000 seats, in 1923. The US Open and its predecessor national championships were held there until 1978, making Forest Hills synonymous with tennis for generations. Forest Hills also has a golfing presence for a short time. Queens Valley Golf Club began building a golf course around in 1922 and opened in 1924. However, the club closed in 1938 so the developers could build housing on top of the course.
Queens Boulevard was expanded in the 1920s. The planning of the Queens Boulevard subway line begins around this time. There are proposals for two stations in Forest Hills: an express station that serves all trains on 71st Avenue, and a local station on 75th Avenue. During the late 1920s, to anticipate the arrival of the subway, land was bought by developers and built. The zoning law was changed to allow fifteen-story building buildings to be built, and made the Forest Hills neighborhood a more desirable place to live in, 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 "Park Avenue of Queens." Excavations for the line began in 1931, and two subway stops in Forest Hills opened in 1936 along with six other stations on the Queens Boulevard line.
The population almost doubled by the end of 1920, going from 9,500 inhabitants in 1927 to 18,207 inhabitants three years later. In 1940, after the subway was opened, the population increased to 32,500 inhabitants. By this time, construction had ceased due to World War II, and about 25 vacant lands in the Forest Hills Gardens were developed after the war. At the same time, a single family home in Forest Hills was destroyed to create a new apartment building. The land in Forest Hills Gardens was fully developed in the 1960s, but there would still be empty land in the Forest Hills itself until the mid-1990s.
Next history
In 1972, residents protested the Forest Hills Houses, a proposed public housing development with three 24-storey buildings on 62nd Drive and 108th Street. Middle-class citizens believe that public housing will degrade the quality of life of the community because the poor will move into housing. Advocates for the project accused the citizens of racism, because the proposed development citizens will be mostly people of minority races. Mayor John Lindsay garnered significant opposition due to controversy surrounding Forest Hills Houses. Mario Cuomo, a lawyer and future governor of New York, is tasked to mediate the dispute and succeed in halving the size of the project. The New York City Housing Authority has finally implemented a rigorous screening process for prospective residents of Forest Hills Houses, with quotas for the elderly and the poorer tenants.
During the 1970s and 1980s, the environment became more racial. Discriminatory agreements for Forest Hills Gardens residents are lifted, and immigrants from Iran, India, Israel, and the Soviet Union begin living in the Forest Hills.
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Demographics
Based on data from the US Census 2010, the Forest Hills population is 86,364, an increase of 1,318 (1.5%) from 85,046 counted in 2000. Covering an area of ​​1,328.22 acres (537.51 ha), the neighborhood has a population density of 63.0 soul per acre (40,300/sq., mi; 15,600/km 2 ).
Forest Hills has one of the highest population percentages working from home in the Queens region. Forest Hills has 4.4% of the working population working from home.
Racial makeup is 58.3% (48,822) White, 2.5% (2,086) African American, 0.1% (63) Native American, 24.2% (20,233) Asian, 0.0% (22) The Pacific Islands, 0.4% (373) of the other races, and 2.1% (1.719) of two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race is 12.4% (10,410) of the population.
Historically, Forest Hills has many Jewish inhabitants. The border between Rego Park and Forest Hills is home to many Bukhar Jews, one of the world's largest populations outside of Israel.
Land use
The southern part of Forest Hills contains a mixture of high-end housing ranges, ranging from single-family homes, attached town houses, and high-rise and high-rise apartment buildings. South of the Long Island Rail Road, the Forest Hills Gardens area is a private community that owns some of the most expensive residential properties in Queens County. It was subject to the limitations of treaties until the 1970s, which did not contain explicit economic, social or racial restrictions even if "working class people" were said to be excluded by Eric P. Nash in 2002 New York Times articles, in his review of A Modern Arcadia . Forest Hills Gardens was named the "Best Community" in 2007 by Cottage Living Magazine . The adjacent Van Court community also contains a number of separate single-family homes. There are also small buildings near the Westside Tennis Center and separate frame houses near Metropolitan Avenue. Finally, there are a number of apartment buildings scattered throughout the community. The most famous high-rise apartment building is The Continental at 108th St, Kennedy House, Pinnacle, Parker Towers, Windsor and a 17-storey luxury condominium building completed in 2014, Aston.
On the northwest edge of Forest Hills, on 62nd Drive and 108th Street, directly adjacent to the Long Island Expressway is a low-income housing project in NYCHA (New York City Housing Authority) that provokes controversy among residents in the more prestigious Forest area. Hill when built in the early 1970s.
The northern side of Forest Hills is home to the Cord Meyer community, which contains a separate single family home. The tears and its successors with larger single family residence have a significant impact on the architectural integrity of the area. However, the Bukharian Jewish community, whose members have settled in the area in large numbers since the late 1990s, advocates a change saying larger homes are needed for their extended family.
Destination
Forest Hills was once the home of an open US tennis tournament. The event was held at the West Side Tennis Club before moving to the USTA National Tennis Center at Flushing Meadows Park, about 4 miles (6.4 km). When the Open is played in a tennis stadium, this tournament is often referred to simply as Forest Hills , just like the All-England Lawn Tennis Association Championships are referred to simply as Wimbledon. In the 2001 film, The Royal Tenenbaums , Luke Wilson's character plays a tennis match at the West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills. An important scene in the 1951 Alfred Hitchcock movie Strangers on a Train , in which the main character (played by Farley Granger) is a professional tennis player, has a long championship game at the Club, with a distinctive image of the surrounding community. The Tennis Stadium, which hosts numerous music concerts including The Beatles after the US Open left for Flushing Meadows, re-organized a musical concert during the summer of 2013 when British rock band Mumford & The children played there to the overflowing crowd. Stadium officials say they will now host as many as six music or cultural events at the Stadium each season.
The Austin Street is a busy and modern street with shops, cafes, restaurants and other shops serving as the center of Forest Hills. It has become a place that people from other neighborhoods visit because of its charm.
Two monuments were set up in the Forest Hills Gardens: an award for victims of World War I, "Great War"; and Columbia's flagship mine, the winner of the American Cup yacht race in 1899 and 1901.
Church-in-the-Gardens, St. Episcopal Church Luke, and the United States Post Office are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Education
Forest Hills is served by the New York City Department of Education.
K-12 school
Students attend a number of different public Primary Schools, including:
- P.S. 101 Schools At The Gardens
- P.S. 144 Column Jeromus Remsen School
- P.S. 175 Lynn Gross Discovery School
- P.S. 196 Grand Central Parkway
- P.S. 220 Edward Mandel
- P.S. 174 William Sidney Mount
The junior high school students in Forest Hills attend both 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 latest school from grades 6 to 12, M.S. 167 (otherwise known as the Metropolitan Expeditionary Learning School (MELS)), "a school for sustainable cities". The school has a partnership with New York City Outward Bound. High school students in New York at the turn of the 21st century begin enrolling at their preferred high school, as there is no longer a zoning policy for Hills High School or Queens Metropolitan High School. Students from all over New York City may enroll in secondary schools in other parts of the city. In addition to Forest Hills High School, most students from both J.H.S. 157 and J.H.S. 190 gets admission to another high school in New York City. Many J.H.S. 157 students also attended the College of Bronx Science and Brooklyn High School of Engineering.
Traditionally more students than J.H.S. 190 chose to study at Stuyvesant High School and Townsend Harris High School, in addition to the Bronx School of Science. Many students from Forest Hills also choose to attend high school and high school at Baccalaureate for Global Education, a public school in Astoria, which teaches grades 7 through 12 and follows the International Baccalaureate curriculum. Many students from outside the district who are accepted to attend Forest Hills High School are those who apply to Law's Law & amp; The Humanities Program, or the Carl Sagan program in accelerated mathematics and science. FHHS began to receive students by auditioning to their Instructional Music Academy and Performing Arts in 2006. Forest Hills High School graduates include Jacob Lew, former US Treasury Secretary Dennis Tito, the first space tourist, as well as many business-star performances, including musicians Burt Bacharach, Simon & amp; Garfunkel, and The Ramones.
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.
Yeshiva Gedolah Lubavitch is a very orthodox high school and branch of Chabad from Tomchei Temimim, located in Forest Hills.
Colleges
Bramson ORT College is an undergraduate college operated by the American branch of the World ORT Jewish Foundation. The main campus is in Forest Hills, with a satellite campus in Brooklyn. Touro College/NYSCAS has a branch location in Forest Hills. Plaza College, a small regional accredited college offering colleagues and a bachelor's degree, is also located in Forest Hills.
Public library
The Forest Hills Library and Library of the North Forest Park, operated by the Queens Library, are in Forest Hills.
Transportation
The main street is Queens Boulevard; road width and complexity has led to a large number of pedestrian deaths, making it a moniker "Boulevard of Death". Metropolitan Avenue is known for its antique shops. The commercial heart of Forest Hills is a one-mile stretch of Austin Road between Yellowstone Boulevard and Ascan Avenue: the last highway was named in 1909 by developer Frederick Backus for his own father, Ascan Backus, II.
Forest Hills - 71st Avenue, express subway station at the intersection of Continental Avenue and Queens Boulevard, serving E , F , M , and Train < span> R . Local 75th Avenue stops ( E and F ) are also in the area, and several entrances/exits from Kew Gardens station - Union Turnpike ( E and F trains) serve the southeastern part of Forest Hills. Northwest of Forest Hills is a local 67th Avenue station, serving the E, M , and R trains.
The neighborhood also has two commuter railway stations, Forest Hills and Kew Gardens railway station on Long Island Rail Road.
Some MTA-branded buses, including local bus Q23, Q60, Q64 and QM4, QM11, QM12, QM18, serve the area.
Parks and recreation
Forest Hills is bordered by two larger parks in Queens run by the Department of Parks and Recreation of New York City: 1,255 acres (5.08 km 2 ) Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, which is the site of two World Exhibitions 1939 and 1964) and the iconic Unisphere; and 544 acres (2.20 km 2 ) Forest Park. In Forest Hills, parks and playgrounds include Yellowstone Municipal Park - Katzman Playground (located on Yellowstone Boulevard, between 68th Avenue and 68th Road); Annadale Playground (located on Yellowstone Boulevard, between 64th Road and 65th Avenue); Willow Lake Playground (located on Grand Central Parkway, between 71 and 72 Avenue); the Ehrenreich-Austin Playground (located on Austin Street, between 76th Avenue and 76th Drive); and Russell Sage Playground (located on 68th Avenue, between Booth and Austin Street).
In popular culture
Forest Hills is featured as a home setting for the fictional comic book character Spider-Man.
The Ramones are from Forest Hills. The band is known for making the Ramones Way on 67th Avenue and 110th Street, in front of Forest Hills High School.
Famous people
References
External links
- Hills Neighborhood Forest Profile, About.com
- Forest Hills Gardens Photos
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