Forest Hills

Neighborhood · Queens

Forest Hills lies in central Queens along Queens Boulevard, with Rego Park to the west and Forest Park to the south, and includes the planned enclave of Forest Hills Gardens.

  • 2.08 square miles
  • 88,965 residents, 2020 Census
  • 439 street corners
  • 4 subway stations
  • 26 bus routes

A developer bought the land in 1906 and named it for nearby Forest Park, and the Russell Sage Foundation, founded in 1907, built Forest Hills Gardens as a model suburban community whose houses, by architect Grosvenor Atterbury, were mostly finished between 1910 and 1917. Its 1923 tennis stadium hosted the national championships that became the U.S. Open, and after the subway arrived in 1936 the population reached 32,500 by 1940.

Sources: Forest Hills, Queens (Wikipedia); Foundation History (Russell Sage Foundation).

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Forest Hills borders six areas, and Yellowstone Boulevard holds more of its corners than any other street, 37 of 439.

Street map of Forest Hills, Queens, outlined among Rego Park, Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, Kew Gardens and Forest Park, with its four subway stations and MacDonald Park.CoronaFlushing Meadows-Corona ParkKew GardensForest ParkGlendaleRego Park
  • Forest Hills
  • A neighboring area
  • Park
  • A station in the list
  • Another station

Neighborhood areas and streets: NYC Department of City Planning. Parks: NYC Parks. Stations: MTA.

Neighboring areas

Subway stations

  • 67 Av lines M R
  • Forest Hills-71 Av lines E F M R accessible
  • 75 Av lines E F
  • Kew Gardens-Union Tpke lines E F accessible

Getting around

Four subway stations and buses on 26 routes stop in or at the edge of Forest Hills.

  • 4 subway stations
  • 2 of them listed by the MTA as fully accessible
  • 14 local bus routes
  • 12 express bus routes

Local bus routes

  • Q23
  • Q37
  • Q38
  • Q45
  • Q46
  • Q48
  • Q54
  • Q58
  • Q60
  • Q64
  • Q74
  • Q88
  • Q98
  • T300

Express bus routes

  • QM4
  • QM10
  • QM11
  • QM12
  • QM18
  • QM40
  • QM42
  • QM44
  • QM63
  • QM64
  • QM65
  • QM68

Safety record

Between 2021 and 2025, its corners averaged fewer police-reported crashes than the average Queens corner.

  • 1,968 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 4.5 a corner, on average
  • 5.2 the average Queens corner
  • 99 corners with a clean record

Signal or safety changes on City record, at 80 of its corners

Leading pedestrian intervals
63
Accessible pedestrian signals
23
Turn calming
9
Safety Improvement Projects
7
Barnes Dance all-way crossings
3
Enhanced crossings
3

Camera tickets

In 2025 its corners had more school-zone speed camera tickets than red-light or bus-lane tickets.

  • 11,984 red-light camera tickets at three corners
  • 15,262 school-zone speed camera tickets at eight corners
  • 0 bus-lane camera tickets
Most red-light tickets
Grand Central Parkway & 72nd Road, 7,834
Most speed tickets
Queens Boulevard & 77th Avenue, 9,125

People and homes

The 2020 Census counted 88,965 residents in Forest Hills, about 42,800 per square mile.

  • 42,353 homes, 2020 Census
  • 1,582 homes added since April 2010, net, by City Planning's count

Half of its 7,085 residential lots hold buildings from 1935 or earlier, and 54% of them date from before 1940, by the City's tax lot records.

Parks and landmarks

Parkland
13.4 acres of NYC Parks property
The largest pieces
MacDonald Park (1.9 acres), Yellowstone Park (1.8 acres) and Real Good Playground (1.6 acres)
Designated landmarks
The Ridgewood Savings Bank; and the Firehouse, Engine Company 305 and Hook & Ladder 151

Streets and trees

Trees
8,154 in NYC Parks' records, most often London planetree, pin oak and thornless honeylocust
Street with the most corners
Yellowstone Boulevard, with 37 of the area's 439
Height above sea level
From 10 feet at Grand Central Parkway & 63rd Avenue to 118 feet at Union Turnpike & Greenway North
Honorary street names
19 at its corners, enacted by local law

Schools and libraries

The City lists 21 schools and two libraries in Forest Hills.

Public schools
13
Charter and private schools
8
Libraries
Forest Hills Library and North Forest Park Library

Bike share and public art

By the station list of October 3, 2026, 37 bike-share stations stand in Forest Hills. The City's public art inventory lists one work in the area: Gerald MacDonald (1934).

  • 37 bike-share stations
  • 1 work of public art

Public safety

How complaints are counted

In 2025 the NYPD recorded 617 major felonies at places in Forest Hills.

Recorded by the NYPD at places in Forest Hills

  • 584 major felonies in 2024
  • 2,785 other felonies, misdemeanors and violations in 2025

In 2025, on the streets along the edge of Forest Hills, the NYPD recorded another 57 major felonies. Counting the streets along its edge, in 2025 the NYPD recorded 7.6 major felonies for every thousand residents the 2020 Census counted in Forest Hills.

Map of Forest Hills: 13 shaded patches of its streets, each numbered with the major felonies the NYPD recorded at public places there in 2025; unshaded areas are not counted on this map.
Major felonies recorded at public places in Forest Hills, 2025
  • 5 to 9
  • 10 to 19
  • 20 to 49
  • 50 to 99
  • 100 or more
  • Not shaded: fewer than 5, held back under the rules in How complaints are counted, parks and public-housing grounds, and land in no patch
Each shaded patch is a set of whole street blocks and corners of Forest Hills, most about 1,500 feet across, and its number counts the major felonies the NYPD recorded at public places on those streets and corners in 2025. The streets along or across the edge of Forest Hills are not shaded. Homes, shelters, schools, child care, health care, houses of worship, hotels, mailboxes inside buildings, private parking lots and garages, buses and taxis, parks and cemeteries, highways, bridges, tunnels, the tramway and places the NYPD did not name count in the figure above for Forest Hills and stay off the map. How complaints are counted gives every rule.
Police precincts
112th (most of the area), 102nd
Major felonies recorded at places in Forest Hills, 2021 to 2025

From January to June 2026 the NYPD recorded 337 major felonies at places in Forest Hills, against 280 in the same months of 2025.

Sources: the NYPD's Complaint Data Historic, updated April 28, 2026, and Complaint Data Current (Year To Date), updated July 27, 2026, on NYC Open Data. Figures to June 30, 2026.

Street corners

How the figures above are measured: Methodology.