Forest Hills, Queens: The Gardens, the Tennis Club and Queens Boulevard

The Landmarks Preservation Commission's designation report for the Ridgewood Savings Bank branch records the neighborhood's founding: "In 1906, developer Cord Meyer who had previously been active in the Elmhurst section of Queens, purchased 600 acres (comprising the land of six farms) in the area known as the Hopedale section of Whitepot. Changing the name to Forest Hills because of its high ground and its proximity to the beautiful terrain of Forest Park, he began to lay out streets, install utilities, and construct the first houses." Where the commission's reports give Meyer 600 acres and the Russell Sage Foundation 160 acres south of the railroad line, the neighborhood's Wikipedia article gives Meyer 660 acres and has Margaret Sage buying 142 acres from the Cord Meyer Development Company in 1908.

The commission's 2012 report calls Forest Hills Gardens "the collaborative creation of landscape architect and planner Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. and the architect and housing reform activist Grosvenor Atterbury." Wikipedia credits Atterbury's construction system with approximately 170 standardized precast concrete panels. By 1921, the 2000 report records, Meyer's company had constructed 200 homes, "some designed by architects Robert Tappan and William Patterson"; the 2012 report gives "some 200 homes, and several apartment buildings." The Gardens is not a New York City historic district. Station Square is at 1 Station Square, and the Long Island Rail Road's Forest Hills station stands in it. The Church-in-the-Gardens, at 50 Ascan Avenue, and St. Luke's Episcopal Church, at 85 Greenway South, are both listed on the National Register of Historic Places, in 2009 and 2010.

The West Side Tennis Club is at 1 Tennis Place. A site in Forest Hills was purchased in 1912 and the club's Tudor-style clubhouse was built the next year; in 1915 the United States Lawn Tennis Association National Championship, later renamed the U.S. Open, moved to West Side. The club's last tournament was in 1977. By 1978 the tournament had outgrown West Side and the USTA moved it to Flushing Meadows under USTA President William Hester. Forest Hills Stadium, the horseshoe-shaped outdoor tennis stadium and concert venue on the same site, fell into disrepair after the tournament left and was denied landmark status by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 2011.

The Ridgewood Savings Bank, Forest Hills Branch, at 107-55 Queens Boulevard, is an individual New York City landmark, designated under LP-2066. So is the firehouse of Engine Company 305 and Hook & Ladder 151, at 111-02 Queens Boulevard — also given as 111-02 to 111-04 Queens Boulevard and as 111-50 75th Avenue, one building — designated under LP-2522, whose summary places it "in Forest Hills, Queens." The commission lists "John R. Sliney, architect (attributed)" and says the building "has been attributed to" him, while the Fire Department's own annual reports, quoted inside the same report, say "there will be no architect employed in connection with the erection of these buildings" and "thus the fees of architects were saved." Arbor Close and Forest Close, completed in 1925 and 1927, abut the firehouse site. Our Lady Queen of Martyrs, at 110-06 Queens Boulevard, is modeled on Durham Cathedral by the parish's own account. The US Post Office–Forest Hills Station, at 106-28 Queens Boulevard, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 17, 1988 under reference number 88002503.

Wikipedia describes Austin Street as "the area's main commercial street" with "many restaurants and chain stores." The NYPD's 112th Precinct, which patrols Forest Hills and Rego Park, is at 68-40 Austin Street, and the Ehrenreich-Austin Playground is at 76-10 Austin Street; NYC Parks names the playground for a man it calls "the unofficial mayor of Kew Gardens," whose advocacy covered "Kew Gardens and Forest Hills" and who died on December 8, 1962. Forest Hills High School, at 67-01 110 Street, opened in 1941; Simon and Garfunkel were in its class of 1958, and Ramones Way was designated in 2017 at 67th Avenue and 110th Street, in front of the school. The Trylon Theater stood at 98-81 Queens Boulevard; demolition permits were issued to Trylon LLC in 2022, and city property records now carry a building completed that year on the merged lot.

Yellowstone Park, at 68-01 Yellowstone Boulevard, carries an NYC Parks sign: "Forest Hills was once farmland owned by Frederick Backus, George Backus, and Horatio N. Squires. The Cord Meyer Development Company bought much of the land. Its name is derived from its proximity to Forest Park." MacDonald Park runs along Queens Boulevard between Yellowstone Boulevard and 70th Road. Russell Sage Playground, on Booth Street between 68th Avenue and 68th Drive, is named by NYC Parks after the Russell Sage School, J.H.S. 190, at 68-17 Austin Street. Annadale Playground is at 64-35 102 Street, with P.S. 175 The Lynn Gross Discovery School; Willow Lake Playground is at 71-25 113 Street; the Underbridge Dog Run, a Neighborhood Park in the parks properties record, is at 64-02 Grand Central Parkway; Barrier Playground lies along the Horace Harding Expressway service road south and 62nd Avenue between 102nd Street and Yellowstone Boulevard; and Project Eden, a GreenThumb garden, is on Kessel Street between Yellowstone Boulevard and Selfridge Street.

Forest Park is not administratively part of Forest Hills: the Department of City Planning gives it its own tabulation area, QN8291, a joint interest area in no neighborhood at all, and its address, 80-30 Park Lane, geocodes to a neighborhood the city's own geocoder calls Forest Park, in ZIP 11415. Forest Hills is named for it and borders it, and the ZIP codes NYC Parks lists on the park's record include 11375 alongside 11385, 11415 and 11421.

Forest Hills–71 Av, the MTA's stop G08 on Queens Boulevard at 71st (Continental) Avenue, is served by the E, F, M and R and is recorded in the MTA's station file as fully accessible. The 75 Av station, stop F07, at 75th Avenue and Queens Boulevard, is served by the E and F and is recorded as not accessible: its northbound and southbound accessibility fields are both zero. The 67th Avenue station, at 67th Avenue and Queens Boulevard, sits on a lot inside the Forest Hills tabulation area, and Wikipedia describes it as on the border of Forest Hills and Rego Park.

On December 31, 1936, the IND Queens Boulevard Line was extended by eight stops, and 3.5 miles (5.6 km), from its previous terminus at Roosevelt Avenue to Union Turnpike, and the 71st Avenue station opened as part of this extension.

The Long Island Rail Road's Forest Hills station, station code FHL, stands in Station Square, above 71st (Continental) Avenue between Austin and Burns Streets.