New! Forest Hills in Queens - SOLD OUT

The streets along the Queens Boulevard spine have something of the character of the Upper East Side of Manhattan, with lots of white-brick high-rises, every chain drugstore known to man, masses of people on the streets, restaurants and movie theaters. There's even one of Costas Kondylis's most Costas Kondylis-ish apartment towers. And then you pass under the L.I.R.R. viaduct into the Gardens, and the effect is overwhelming, utterly unlike anything else in New York, as you enter what a character in Sinclair Lewis's 1920 novel "Main Street" calls "the fairy-book suburb of Forest Hills on Long Island." Begun in 1909, laid out by Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. (a more talented designer than his celebrated father), with the great Grosvenor Atterbury as its original architect, Forest Hills Gardens (built on 108 acres of Newtown farmland) has been hailed by some as the finest planned community in the United States. Let's see why. Francis Morrone leads this tour. Cost: $30 / $20 Members.