Forest Park
Forest Park is the name of a large city park and a section of Queens, a borough of New York City. 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…Photo: Jim.henderson, Public domain.
Photo: Joe Shlabotnik, CC BY 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Woodhaven Boulevard station and 104th Street station.
Woodhaven Boulevard station
Metro station
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The Woodhaven Boulevard station is an elevated station on the BMT Jamaica Line of the New York City Subway, located in Woodhaven, Queens. It is served by the J train at all times and the Z train during rush hours in the peak direction.
104th Street station
Metro station
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The 104th Street station is a skip-stop station on the BMT Jamaica Line of the New York City Subway, located on Jamaica Avenue between 102nd and 104th Streets in Richmond Hill, Queens.
Strack Pond
Pond
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Strack Pond is a glacial kettle pond located inside Forest Park, Queens, New York City. The pond was buried in 1966 and restored four decades later.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Richmond Hill and Woodhaven.
Richmond Hill
Neighborhood
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Richmond Hill is a commercial and residential neighborhood located in the southwestern section of the New York City borough of Queens. The area borders Kew Gardens and Forest Park to the north, Jamaica and South Jamaica to the east, South Ozone Park to the south, and Woodhaven and Ozone Park to the west.
Woodhaven
Neighborhood
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Woodhaven is a neighborhood in the southwestern section of the New York City borough of Queens. It is bordered on the north by Park Lane South and Forest Park, on the east by Richmond Hill, on the south by Ozone Park and Atlantic Avenue, and the west by the Cypress Hills area of East New York, Brooklyn.
Kew Gardens Hills
Neighborhood
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Kew Gardens Hills is a neighborhood in the middle of the New York City borough of Queens. The borders are Flushing Meadows–Corona Park to the west, the Long Island Expressway to the north, Union Turnpike to the south, and Kissena/Parsons Boulevards to the east.
Forest Park
- Type: Park
- Description: park in Queens, New York
- Category: recreation area
- Location: Queens, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
40.70326° or 40° 42′ 12″ northLongitude
-73.85256° or 73° 51′ 9″ westElevation
115 feet (35 metres)Open location code
87G8P43W+8XOpenStreetMap ID
way 200503846OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=parkGeoNames ID
5117598Wikidata ID
Q5469053
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Japanese—“Forest Park” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “فورست بارك”
- Cebuano: “Forest Park”
- Chinese: “森林公园 (皇后区)”
- Chinese: “森林公园”
- Chinese: “森林公園 (皇后區)”
- Dutch: “Forest Park”
- French: “Forest Park”
- Hebrew: “קווינס/פורסט פארק”
- Japanese: “フォレストパーク (クイーンズ区)”
- Japanese: “フォレストパーク”
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