Forest Hills
neighborhood, Queens, New York City, New York
Forest Hills, residential section of the borough of Queens, New York City, southeastern New York, U.S., on Long Island. Originally part of a district called Whitepot, which was settled about 1652, it was named Forest Hills in about 1910 for its location on wooded heights. The stadium of the West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills was the site of the U.S. national lawn tennis tournaments from 1915 until they were moved in 1978 to Flushing Meadows Park (also in Queens).
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