Forest Hills Gardens

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Take a walk through winding streets with fabulous foliage and charming houses of caliber far beyond belief for a Central Queens locale.

Forest Hills Gardens is a community located in Forest Hills, in the New York City borough of Queens. The area consists of a 142-acre development, fashioned after a traditional English Village, that is one of the country's oldest planned communities and the most prominent American example of Ebenezer Howard's Garden city movement. The community, founded in 1908, consists of about 800 homes, townhouses, and apartment buildings, mostly in Tudor, Brick Tudor or Georgian style, in a parklike setting.

The streets were fully laid-out in 1910, many of them winding specifically to discourage through-traffic. Though Forest Hills Gardens is private property, it is not a gated community and through traffic, both automotive and pedestrian, is permitted. Street parking, however, is restricted to community residents.

Although most of the buildings consist of single-family homes, the development also includes some garden-apartment buildings and retail space. Today, the area contains some of the most expensive housing in the borough of Queens. [1]

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Parking isn't allowed without permit in the Gardens area, so park just outside and stroll in.
Top off the stroll with a visit to Carvel on Metropolitan Ave. between 71st & Ascan under the Chof-K
Many nooks to explore with several sitting parks interspersed throughout the Gardens
Keep in mind that it is an active residential neighborhood.

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Forest Hills Gardens

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