In Contract - First Time Offered. Requires New Kitchen and Bathroom. Lovely Sunny South West Exposure Overlooking Beautiful Landscaped Quiet Garden. All unit owners have exclusive use of a gated private park across the street, owned by the Co-Op association. Exceedingly well located, convenient to the Forest Hills LIRR Station, Express E/F/M/R subway service to Manhattan. Across from the West Side Tennis Club and in the heart of the Landmarked Forest Hills Gardens. Also adjacent to the Austin Street shopping district. As Sarah Smith perceptively noted in her NY Times article, Past Is Present..... Outside is the Queens you know, with all the amenities and hubbub of contemporary city life. But inside, Forest Hills Gardens is another world. Just through an arched underpass, the community's expansive entrance plaza, Station Square, unfolds with arcaded sidewalks, a domed tower and what could be some sort of Anglo-German manor house in subtly colors and intricately patterned brickwork. It is a disorienting transition, like stepping into a blurred fantasy of the past. THIS 175-ACRE COMMUNITY of more than 800 houses and 11 apartment buildings, of churches, parks and storefronts, began in 1909 when the Russell Sage Foundation commissioned the architect Grosvenor Atterbury and the landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. to plan a new town on a plot in Queens. They looked for inspiration to the new British "garden cities," nostalgic experiments in urban planning intended to be self-sufficient enclaves for working people -- even if they did not embrace the egalitarian ideal.
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