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Bread Alone’s breads and pastries are among the draws at Forest Hills Greenmarket, held Sundays year-round beside MacDonald Park and the post office. You can put together a basket around a loaf, orchard fruit and cheese from Valley Shepherd, with the fruit changing through the seasons.
Bob Dylan played an acoustic set here in 1965, then returned with the Hawks and an electric guitar to a divided crowd. Today, you come to Forest Hills Stadium for an outdoor concert within the architecture of a former championship tennis venue. The 13,000-capacity bowl hosts a concert program spanning genres, with renovations designed around clear sightlines and sound.
Moviegoers have a separate destination south of the stadium on Metropolitan Avenue: Cinemart Cinemas. You’ll find first-run films here, with a program that includes thrillers, horror, animation and other mainstream releases.
Powered leather recliners let you settle back for the screening, and concessions supply the movie snacks. Cinemart is east of the painting studio and comic shop farther along Metropolitan Avenue, making a film a possible companion to browsing comics or working on a painting.
Artists lead you through a painting at Painting with a Twist, farther west on Metropolitan Avenue. The paint-and-sip sessions begin with a defined project, with instruction as you work through the image and its colors. Date nights and trivia themes put a social activity around the painting, while family sessions give adults and children a way to make art together.
Royal Collectibles’ staff help readers find a first comic and advise collectors looking deeper into the shelves. You can browse Silver Age through modern comic books, graphic novels, toys and statues at this family-owned shop near the painting studio. The range lets you look for older issues or leave with a longer story collected in a graphic novel.
Find upcoming street fairs, performances and other unique events in Forest Hills.
2 things worth doing in the next 7 days · Friday, October 16th – Thursday, October 22nd
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| Event | Date | Where | Hours |
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 Sing Along Brunch | Sat, Oct 17 | IYKYK Forest Hills, FlushingForest Hills · Queens | Not posted yetPrice not listed |
| Event | Date | Where | Hours |
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 Forest Hills Autumn Fair | Sun, Oct 18 | 71st Avenue / Continental Avenue from Queens Blvd to Austin Street, Forest Hills, NYForest Hills · Queens | Not posted yet |
| Sing Along Brunch | Sun, Oct 18 | IYKYK Forest Hills, FlushingForest Hills · Queens | Not posted yetPrice not listed |
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You can sing along during brunch at IYKYK in Forest Hills.
🚇 Forest Hills-71 Av (E F M R) · 2 min walk
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You can browse exhibitors at this autumn street fair in Forest Hills.
🚇 Forest Hills-71 Av (E F M R) · 2 min walk
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An outdoor stadium dating to 1923, restored in 2013, that now books concerts across a wide range of genres.
4.6★ from 3,880 Google reviews
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A no-frills multiplex with tiered stadium seating and a snack bar, screening current releases and cheaper daytime showings.
4.4★ from 3,276 Google reviews
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A Forest Hills movie theater with a cafe, currently showing family titles alongside the wider slate — Toy Story 5, Minions & Monsters, Moana and Spider-Man: Brand New Day, the last also in RealD 3D.
4.6★ from 2,858 Google reviews
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An escape room venue where groups work through clues and puzzles inside themed rooms, with a time limit to beat.
5★ from 2,846 Google reviews
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A basement bowling alley open late, running standard lanes, cosmic bowling and leagues.
4.2★ from 1,392 Google reviews
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A neighbourhood movie theatre on Lefferts Boulevard showing current releases alongside filmed theatre and gallery programmes.
4.5★ from 1,355 Google reviews
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This is the historic home of Rufus King, who signed the United States Constitution, served as a U.S.
4.3★ from 900 Google reviews
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A shop dealing in comics and graphic novels, alongside figurines and novelty items.
4.7★ from 890 Google reviews
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A photography business focused on school portraits, with additional photo packages available.
4.8★ from 477 Google reviews
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A paint-and-sip studio on Metropolitan Avenue in Forest Hills where an artist walks the room through one painting step by step and everyone takes their canvas home.
4.9★ from 406 Google reviews
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4.2★ from 366 Google reviews
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Browse a general-interest indie run by three former Barnes & Noble co-workers who crowdfunded it in 2017 — the first bookstore Kew Gardens had seen since 1984 — with new releases, bestsellers and a curated 'New & Loved in Fiction' table.
4.9★ from 270 Google reviews
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Eight outdoor hard tennis courts in Juniper Valley Park at 62nd Avenue and 80th Street, with lessons offered on site.
4.6★ from 250 Google reviews
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This is a Sunday morning market on Queens Boulevard at 70th Avenue, right alongside MacDonald Park, so you can pair the shopping with time in the park.
4.6★ from 237 Google reviews
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5★ from 205 Google reviews
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A spa where the treatment list runs to full-body massage work, including sessions using heated stones.
4.5★ from 185 Google reviews
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A members' club on about 12 acres in Forest Hills.
4.3★ from 115 Google reviews
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This is a dance school you enrol a child in rather than somewhere you drop in for an afternoon.
4.8★ from 109 Google reviews
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A riding stable in Forest Hills offering lessons from beginner through advanced, plus a pony ride service aimed at younger children with staff supervising.
4.7★ from 90 Google reviews
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A Queens dance studio, running since 1997, teaching Salsa/Mambo ON 2, Merengue, Bachata, Cha Cha, belly dance, ballroom, ballet, jazz, tap, hip hop, modern, lyrical, tango, Brazilian samba and breakdance.
4.9★ from 88 Google reviews
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This is a working historic cemetery in Kew Gardens laid out as parkland, with gentle hills, large shade trees and a lake to walk around.
4.3★ from 86 Google reviews
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4.8★ from 63 Google reviews
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An art school running classes for children aged 4 to 12.
5★ from 54 Google reviews
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A Forest Hills performing arts studio where children enroll in classes rather than visit.
4.7★ from 52 Google reviews
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4.9★ from 51 Google reviews
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A pottery teaching studio in Kew Gardens, running since 1980.
4.8★ from 44 Google reviews
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A mobile paint party — they bring canvas, brushes, paints, aprons and easels to you, set up and clean up, and an artist talks the group through one featured painting from start to finish.
5★ from 41 Google reviews
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An antique and collectibles dealer.
4.6★ from 36 Google reviews
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4.9★ from 17 Google reviews
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A pub near the stadium and an Austin Street café offer different ways to eat before a show.
You can browse art and framing at A+ or choose children’s gifts at Thank Heaven.
Look at the station and the paving together: both were planned as parts of Station Square’s design.
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