Queens
Sublets in Forest Hills
Suburban & well-served
Forest Hills Gardens is a mock-Tudor planned community that looks nothing like the rest of the city, and the apartment blocks around it are large, solid and pre-war. Austin Street does the shopping, the LIRR gets you to Penn in fifteen minutes.
Also known as
Forest Hills takes in Forest Hills Gardens. Listings in any of them show up here.
No sublets in Forest Hills right now. See everything open across the city.
What's in Forest Hills
Names a local would drop, and what each one actually is. Tap any to see it on a map.
culture
Forest Hills Gardens
A 1909 planned garden suburb in mock-Tudor, built around a station square that looks imported from England.
shopping
Austin Street
The shopping and eating street, busy all week and the reason you rarely have to leave the neighborhood.
activity
Forest Hills Stadium
The old US Open venue, now one of the better outdoor concert rooms in the city.
park
Forest Park
538 acres of oak forest, bridle paths and a 1903 carousel, on the neighborhood's southern edge.
food
Bukharian restaurants
Central Asian Jewish cooking found almost nowhere else in the country: plov, lagman and skewers.
What Forest Hills is like
Dining
Bukharian Jewish food is the specialty here and found almost nowhere else, alongside the Austin Street spread.
Nightlife
Quiet. Neighborhood bars and the occasional show at Forest Hills Stadium.
Green space
Forest Park and Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, both large and close.
Getting around
- EFMR71st Av-Forest Hills
- MR67th Av/63rd Dr-Rego Park
- LIRR at Forest Hills
4subway lines
Why people sublet here
- Forest Hills Gardens, a 1900s planned garden suburb
- Big pre-war apartments at outer-borough prices
- Austin Street's shops and restaurants
- Express E and F plus the LIRR to Penn Station