ZIP 11375 is Forest Hills, the leafy, Tudor-architecture, deep-pocket Queens ZIP. Forest Hills Gardens is a private gated community of 1910s English-village brick + slate homes. Austin Street is the shopping spine. Continental Avenue is the subway anchor.
Forest Hills is the closest Queens gets to suburb-inside-the-city: tree-canopied streets, single-family homes with garages, the gated Gardens for the upper income tier. Austin Street between 70th and 75th Avenues is the restaurant-and-shopping strip. Forest Hills Stadium hosts the US Open historic site (1923-1977) + current concert season. The west side of the ZIP picks up the apartment density along Queens Boulevard.
The 71st-Continental Avenue station is a major E, F, M, R hub. Forest Hills LIRR sits at the Long Island Rail Road Port Washington Branch. Q23, Q60, Q64 buses cross the ZIP. From Ditmars, drivers reach 11375 in 30-40 minutes via Astoria Boulevard + Queens Boulevard or Grand Central Parkway.
The 14,000-seat horseshoe stadium at One Tennis Place, original home of the US Open 1924-1977, now a concert venue (The Strokes, Mumford, Janet Jackson).
The east-west shopping strip from 70th Avenue to 76th Avenue, historic Bohemian Hall + Beer Garden area, anchor retail for Forest Hills.
The 71st-Continental Avenue E, F, M, R subway hub, express stop, 15-minute ride to midtown Manhattan.
