Forest Park

Park · Queens

Forest Park covers 543 acres of Queens, bordered by Kew Gardens, Richmond Hill, Woodhaven, Glendale and Forest Hills, and about three-quarters of it is woodland.

  • 0.86 square miles
  • 10 street corners
  • 10 bus routes

Its hills and hollows, including the kettle known as Strack Pond, were shaped by the last glacier along the Harbor Hill Moraine. The land, assembled by the City of Brooklyn in the 1890s, was first known as Brooklyn Forest Park, and the landscape firm Olmsted, Olmsted & Eliot planned its winding main drive. Run today by NYC Parks, it is known for its oak and hickory forest, hiking and bridle trails, a carousel, a bandshell and a golf course.

Sources: Forest Park (Queens) (Wikipedia); Forest Park - NY (The Cultural Landscape Foundation).

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Forest Park borders six areas, and Forest Park Drive holds more of its corners than any other street, eight of 10.

Street map of Forest Park, Queens, outlined among Woodhaven, Glendale, Richmond Hill and Forest Hills, with its paths and the streets around it.Forest HillsKew GardensRichmond HillWoodhavenGlendaleHighland Park-Cypress Hills Cemeteries (North)
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Neighborhood areas and streets: NYC Department of City Planning. Parks: NYC Parks. Stations: MTA.

Neighboring areas

Getting around

Buses on ten routes stop in or at the edge of Forest Park.

  • 8 local bus routes
  • 2 express bus routes

Local bus routes

  • Q11
  • Q23
  • Q29
  • Q37
  • Q52-SBS
  • Q53-SBS
  • Q54
  • Q55

Express bus routes

  • BM5
  • QM15

Safety record

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

  • 54 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 5.4 a corner, on average
  • 5.2 the average Queens corner
  • 6 corners with a clean record

Camera tickets

In 2025 the Department of Finance recorded no red-light, school-zone speed or bus-lane camera ticket at its corners.

Parks

Parkland
486.3 acres of Forest Park, as NYC Parks maps it within the area's boundary

Streets and trees

Trees
1,874 in NYC Parks' records, most often pin oak, northern red oak and oak
Street with the most corners
Forest Park Drive, with eight of the area's 10

Public art

The City's public art inventory lists two works in Forest Park: Richmond Hill War Memorial (1925) and Sergeant Joseph E. Schaefer Memorial (1987).

  • 2 works of public art

Street corners

How the figures above are measured: Methodology.