Forest Hills High School (New York) Forest Hills High School (New York) Forest Hills High School (FHHS) is a high school in the Forest Hills neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens, near Rego Park. Dedicated in 1937, it educates students in grades 9–12 and is operated by the New York City Department of Education. The school serves the Forest Hills and Rego Park neighborhoods of Queens. However, many students come from nearby neighborhoods such as Kew Gardens, Jackson Heights, Woodside, Flushing, Elmhurst, East Elmhurst, Astoria, Corona, Glendale and parts of Jamaica. FHHS has often been extremely overcrowded throughout its history, often running several
Jackson Heights, Queens game Scrabble was co-invented by former architect Alfred Mosher Butts, who lived in Jackson Heights. There is a street sign at 35th Avenue and 81st Street that is stylized using letters, with their values in Scrabble as a subscript; it was originally erected in 1995 but disappeared in 2008, and a new sign was subsequently put up in 2011. Jackson Heights has followed the general crime patterns of New York City. After crime spikes in the 1970s into the 1990s, crime has declined significantly. According to New York City Police Department CompStat statistics, measured crime has declined more than 74%