Walking Tour: Forest Hills - Garden in the City

Saturday, October 20, 2:00 p.m.

Recently ranked the no. 1 “cottage community” in the U.S. by Cottage Living Magazine, Forest Hills Gardens exemplifies the “garden city” planning that Jane Jacobs criticized. But are there also Jacobsean virtues to greater Forest Hills? Leader: Francis Morrone, architectural historian. Meet at Austin St. and Continental Ave., near 71st Ave. subway station. (Transit: E, F, G, R, V trains to 71st Ave.)
$15, $12 MAS members. Reservations and pre-payment required. Click here to purchase tickets online or call Michael Discus on 212-935-2075.

I’m really sorry I will miss this Walking Tour of Forest Hills, that tries to look at that community as Jane might have. I lived a lot of years there and it’s an interesting place in that it combines an organic, Apartment based area with good public transit with a more planned “garden suburb” in a way that works pretty well.
The apartments and denser housing provide a backbone and diversity to the area that makes for a nice shopping area and great transit access, while the Garden’s offer isolation and natural beauty.

Transit access to 71st Ave is very good.