Forest Hills In Queens, NY Walking Tour (August 2025)

Filming dates: Monday August 4th, and Thursday August 7th, 2025

It's been two years since I filmed my first Queens walking tour, exploring Forest Hills. I decided to come back and do part 2 of an extended walking tour. The first Forest Hills video was only 9 minutes and this new video is 48 minutes. Forest Hills is a neighborhood in Queens bounded next to Kew Gardens, Middle Village, Rego Park, Elmhurst, Corona, Glendale, Forest Park, Richmond Hill, and Flushing Meadows Corona Park.

Forest Hills is a good neighborhood to live, a good community, nice houses in different European-styles and suburban styles, Forest Hills Stadium, Austin Street, fancy restaurants, retail development stores, Metropolitan Ave, a community of Bukhara Jews from Uzbekistan and Eastern Europeans, Forest Park, and the Forest Hills Station Square.

In the Forest Hills Station Square, there are restaurants like Jade Eatery and Lounge, Prince Tea House, Forest Hills Pizzeria, and Dirty Pierre's. The station square takes the Long Island Railroad (LIRR) in routes to Jamaica, Queens (Sutphin Blvd). There are movie theaters in this neighborhood, such as Cinemart Cinemas (Metropolitan Ave) and Regal UA Midway (Queens Blvd). The Spider Man movie from 2002 was filmed here in Forest Hills. 108th Street is where a community of Bukharian Jews from Uzbekistan, Georgians, Russians, Muslim Uzbeks, Orthodox Jews, and other ethnic groups live.

The local restaurant Queens Bully closed down temporarily early this year on March, due to previous tax violations and lower staff membership. Forest Hills is continuing to change every year with more development going on, more businesses, and it's experiencing a small level of gentrification with the expanding influence of young, upper class, middle class families and luxury buildings in Queens Boulevard. Forest Hills is a safe neighborhood to visit. The restaurants have decent food, there are good schools in the area, and Austin Street is busier than usual with traffic and parking.

Background song: Martin Garrix ft. Macklemore & Patrick Stump of Fall Out Boy - Summer Days