Today the 175-acre Forest Hills Gardens, a private community run by a corporation of property owners, is bounded on the north by the Long Island Railroad Main Line, Union Turnpike to the east, 69th Avenue to the west and various streets to the south, including Dartmouth Street, Herricks Avenue and Kessel Street.Įxterior view of a five-bedroom Tudor-styled home in Forest Hills Gardens TERRACE SOTHEBY'S INTERNATIONAL REALTY More: With Elegance and Cachet, Cologny is Geneva’s Most Attractive Suburb "Kids are out on the street riding their bikes.
Hof, owner, with her husband Robert, of Terrace Sotheby’s International Realty in Forest Hills. "It’s not a community where everyone is isolated and in their own little homes," said Ms. The key to Forest Hills Gardens said Susanna Hof, a real estate broker whose roots in the neighborhood go back six generations, is that it’s special, without being precious. bought several Queens farms, now greater Forest Hills, and subsequently sold a parcel to the Russell Sage Foundation for its experiment in urban planning. Inspired by the garden city movement popular in England at the turn of the century, the developers of Forest Hills Gardens saw the opening of the Queensborough Bridge in 1909 and the anticipated spread of New York City across the East River as an opportunity to create New York’s own contained, harmonious community that would provide housing to people of all income levels in a setting of parks and greenways.
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