Forest Hills  

Forest Hills is a primarily residential neighborhood in the central portion of the borough of Queens, 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 to the east.

The area was initially referred to as “Whitepot.” The current name comes from the Cord Meyer Development Company, which bought 660 acres (270 ha) 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 and 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 until 1978, 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, NYC Community District 6, and its ZIP Code is 11375. It is patrolled by the New York City Police Department’s 112th Precinct. Politically, Forest Hills is represented by the New York City Council’s 29th District.

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In 1914, the West Side Tennis Club moved from Manhattan to Forest Hills Gardens: 469 They constructed the Forest Hills Tennis Stadium, a stadium with approximately 13,000 seats, in 1923: 469 The U.S. Open and its predecessor national championships were held there until 1978, making Forest Hills synonymous with tennis for generations. 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, and it was open by 1924: 469 . However, the club was closed in 1938 so that developers could build housing atop the site of the course. EZ Bed Bugs Exterminator Queens

Points of Interests 

Forest Hills was once the home of the U.S. Open tennis tournament. The event was held at the West Side Tennis Club before moving to the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center 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 Forest Hills. 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.

 

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