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Forest Hills

Forest Hills is a neighborhood in the central portion of the borough of in . It is adjacent to to the north, Rego Park and to the west, to the south, Kew Gardens to the southeast, and and to the east.
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  • Type: Neighborhood with 67,700 residents
  • Description: neighborhood of Queens, New York City, New York, USA
  • Also known as: “Forest Hill”, “Forest Hills, New York”, “Forest Hills, New York City”, “Forest Hills, Queens”, and “Whitepot”
  • Postal code: 11375

Places of Interest

Highlights include Forest Park and Arthur Ashe Stadium.

Photo: Joe Shlabotnik, CC BY 2.0.
is the name of a large city park and a section of , a borough of . It includes the neighborhoods of Forest Hills, a well-kept, leafy neighborhood of relatively well-to-do homeowners and immigrants from areas including the former…

Stadium
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is a tennis arena at in , New York City. Part of the , it is the main stadium of the US Open tennis tournament and has a capacity of 23,771, making it the largest tennis stadium in the world.

Museum
Photo: Jim.henderson, Public domain.
The is an art museum and educational center at in , New York City, United States. Established in 1972, the museum includes the Panorama of the City of New York, a room-sized scale model of the five boroughs of New York City built for the 1964 New York World's Fair.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Jamaica and Jackson Heights.

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is an expansive neighborhood located in eastern . Historically consisting of predominantly black communities, now is home to an extremely diverse array of peoples and cultures.

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is a neighborhood in , a borough of . Woodside, Elmhurst and Corona are also covered in this article. To an increasing number of travelers and curious New York natives, the area offers a diversity of mostly reasonably-priced restaurants representing many of the world's cuisines, including Indian, Thai, Korean, Mexican, Peruvian, Italian, and Argentine.

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is a large area of , a borough of . Flushing contains a very large Chinatown, and in fact is more diverse than Manhattan's .

Forest Hills

Latitude
40.7225° or 40° 43′ 21″ north
Longitude
-73.8437° or 73° 50′ 37″ west
Population
67,700
Elevation
59 feet (18 metres)
Open location code
87G8P5F4+2G
Open­Street­Map ID
way 325838829
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­neighbourhood
Geo­Names ID
5117575
Wiki­data ID
Q1202211
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Armenian to Yiddish—“Forest Hills” goes by many names.
  • Armenian: “Ֆորեստ Հիլս”
  • Basque: “Forest Hills”
  • Belarusian: “Форэст-Гілс”
  • Belarusian: “Форэст-Хілс”
  • Bulgarian: “Форест Хилс”
  • Catalan: “Forest Hills”
  • Chinese: “森林小丘”
  • Chinese: “森林山”
  • Czech: “Forest Hills”
  • Dagbani: “Forest Hills”
  • Danish: “Forest Hills”
  • Dutch: “Forest Hills”
  • Esperanto: “Arbaraj Montetoj”
  • Finnish: “Forest Hills”
  • French: “Forest Hills”
  • German: “Forest Hills”
  • Greek: “Φόρεστ Χιλς”
  • Hausa: “Dutsen daji, Queens”
  • Hebrew: “פורסט הילס”
  • Indonesian: “Forest Hills, Queens”
  • Indonesian: “Forest Hills”
  • Irish: “Forest Hills”
  • Italian: “Forest Hills”
  • Japanese: “フォレスト・ヒル”
  • Japanese: “フォレスト・ヒルズ (クイーンズ)”
  • Japanese: “フォレスト・ヒルズ・ガーデンズ (クイーンズ)”
  • Japanese: “フォレスト・ヒルズ・ガーデンズ”
  • Japanese: “フォレストヒルズ”
  • Japanese: “フォレストヒルズ地区”
  • Korean: “포리스트힐스”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Forest Hills”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Forest Hills”
  • Persian: “فارست هیلز”
  • Portuguese: “Forest Hills”
  • Russian: “Форест-Хилс”
  • Scots: “Forest Hills”
  • Slovak: “Forest Hills”
  • Slovenian: “Forest Hills”
  • South Azerbaijani: “فورزت هیلس، کوینز”
  • Spanish: “Forest Hills (Queens)”
  • Spanish: “Forest Hills”
  • Swedish: “Forest Hills, Queens”
  • Swedish: “Forest Hills”
  • Tajik: “Форест-Хилс”
  • Tajik: “Форест-Ҳилс”
  • Tatar: “Форест Һиллс”
  • Turkish: “Forest Hills”
  • Ukrainian: “Forest Hills”
  • Ukrainian: “Форест-Гілс”
  • Urdu: “فورسٹ ہلز”
  • Vietnamese: “Forest Hills”
  • Yiddish: “פארעסט הילס”

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Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Queens Public Library at Forest Hills and Forest Hills–71st Avenue station.

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