Forest Hills Timeline
1912 West Side Tennis Club takes a vote on whether to move to Morris Park Estates (Bronx), Russell Sage Homes Foundation property (Forest Hills Gardens), or Kew Gardens. Forest Hills wins, with Kew Gardens being second. The movement to Dartmouth Street takes place in 1913. First Presbyterian Church of Forest Hills opens at Seminole and Gown. Congregation had services as early as 1908. First Forest Hills Library opens in Station Square.
1913 Trolley line inaugurated from 59th Street, Manhattan, to Queens Boulevard (formerly Hoffman Boulevard), Forest Hills. The line is extended to Jamaica in 1914. Church-in-the-Gardens moves to present site on Ascan Avenue. St. Luke's Episcopal Church opens at Dartmouth and Austin Street. Present Russell Place location opens in 1923.
1914 Beginning of construction in widening and improving Queens Boulevard to 200-foot width, finished in 1935. Temporary P.S. 101 opens on Russell Place, with 75 pupils. New building was constructed in 1924.
1915 Our Lady Queen of Martyrs Roman Catholic Church moves from Fife Street to Austin Street and Ascan Avenue.
1918 Private Kew-Forest School opens on Union Turnpike, off of Austin Street, with 55 pupils.
1918 Elevated railroad structure is built on Jamaica Avenue from 111th St to 168th St.
1920 Forest Hills population is 3,000.
1921 Forest Hills Theater, on Continental Avenue, opens up.
1923 Forest Hills Gardens Corporation buys Forest Hills Gardens stock from Russell Sage Homes Foundation. The "Gardens" is now a membership corporation.
1924 P.S. 99 (Kew Gardens School) is built at Kew Gardens Road and 83rd Avenue.
1926 The Bristol (78-14 Austin Street), the first apartment building in Forest Hills, is built.
1927 The Cord Meyer Company Continental is erected (four stories high). It was later demolished and 70-20 108th Street put up. Devon Hall (77-54 Austin Street) is constructed. Our Lady of Mercy Roman Catholic Church is built on Kessel Street, off of Continental Avenue.
1929 Founding of Forest Hills Jewish Center, at Kessel Street and Stafford (69th Avenue). Movement to present site at 106-16 Queens Boulevard in 1949.
1930 Forest Hills has 18,200 people.
1933 Grand Central Parkway opens
1935 Queens Boulevard private buses begin. The Interborough Parkway opens between Pennsylvania Avenue, Brooklyn, and Kew Gardens. Queens Boulevard, looking as it does today, is widened to 200 feet.
1936 IND Subway stations open at Woodhaven Boulevard, 63rd Drive, 67th Avenue, 71st Avenue/Continental Avenue, and Kew Gardens/Union Turnpike.
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