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What you’ll pay: $600,000
What you’ll get: A 1,500-square-foot, three-bedroom, one-and-a-half-bath 1920s Colonial
Distance to midtown: 40 minutes on the E train or 15 minutes via the LIRR
If you took scissors to a swath of the shaded streets and stately homes that typify much of Westchester County, then made an opening in the Upper West Side to accommodate it, you’d have a sense of what Forest Hills is like. Part convenient urban hub—parks, playgrounds, shopping, restaurants and family-sized co-ops abound—and part swanky suburb, this is a neighborhood of options. “The great thing is there are a lot of real-estate choices at different price points,” says market researcher Christine Gendreau, mother of Leo, 3.
Along the main artery of Queens Boulevard, you’ll find luxury towers such as the Kennedy House, which sports a rooftop pool. North of Jewel Avenue are neat single-family houses built between the 1920s and the 1940s. Head south on Continental Avenue for the leafy streets and tony Georgian- and Tudor-style houses of Forest Hills Gardens; one of the country’s first planned communities, it was laid out by landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. in the early 1900s.
