Parks and Recreation
Forest Hills is bordered by two of the more sizable parks in Queens managed by the NYC Department of Parks and Recreation: the 1,255 acres (5.08 km2) Flushing Meadows–Corona Park, the site of two World's Fairs and the iconic Unisphere, and the 544 acres (2.20 km2) Forest Park. Within Forest Hills, some of the more popular parks and playgrounds include: Yellowstone Municipal Park – Katzman Playground (located on Yellowstone Blvd, between 68th Avenue and 68th Road); The Annandale Playground (located on Yellowstone Blvd, between 64th Road and 65th Avenue); The Willow Lake Playground (located off the Grand Central Parkway, between 71st and 72nd Avenues); The Ehrenreich-Austin Playground (located on Austin St, between 76th Avenue and 76th Drive); and The Russell Sage Playground (located on 68 Ave, between Booth St and Austin St).
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Perhaps our own woods and fields,—in the best wooded towns, where we need not quarrel about the huckleberries,—with the primitive swamps scattered here and there in their midst, but not prevailing over them, are the perfection of parks and groves, gardens, arbors, paths, vistas, and landscapes. They are the natural consequence of what art and refinement we as a people have.... Or, I would rather say, such were our groves twenty years ago.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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