Culture in Forest Hills

A five-screen cinema on Metropolitan Avenue that opened on March 10, 1927 as the Metropolis Theatre and calls itself the oldest continuously operated independent movie theater in Queens. The screens are small, between thirty-six and seventy-one seats, with digital projection and recliners put in during the last refit. The program mixes the week's releases with independent and specialty bookings. You buy a ticket at the window.

Daily, 11am to midnight, with showtimes set by the week's program

The brick and half-timber plaza at the entrance to Forest Hills Gardens, laid out by Grosvenor Atterbury and Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. between 1912 and 1916, with the railroad station arcade of 1913 on one side. You walk under the arches to get to the Stadium and the paving carries Union Jack patterns in the brickwork. The buildings are still in use as apartments and shops. It is a public plaza with nothing to pay.

Open at all hours as a public plaza