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A candy shop that opened on Metropolitan Avenue in 1930 as Krause's Candy Kitchen and has been making chocolate in the back of the same storefront ever since. The Aigner family took it over in the early 1960s and two local women bought it in 2020 to keep it going. Copper kettles stand in the back and the pieces are hand-dipped. Hot chocolate comes to the counter in cold months. You buy by the piece or by the box.

Mon to Wed and Sun, 10am to 6pm. Thu to Sat, 10am to 8pm

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

A sit-down pizzeria on Ascan Avenue that does thin-crust pies to order rather than slices, with a wood-panelled dining space and a cannoli case by the register. It is cash only, which catches people out. The pies come out blistered and whole, so this is a sit-down twenty minutes rather than something to eat on the way. It has been the Forest Hills answer to this question for a long time.

Mon to Thu, 4pm to 9pm. Fri to Sun, noon to 9pm

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

A bar on Station Square, thirty years in the same doorway, started in 1995 by Christopher Lucien File and now run by his sister Jamie. Burgers and white wine mussels are the menu and there is a house sangria. The walls carry concert posters and band memorabilia, which makes sense given what is over the wall.

Mon to Fri, 5pm to 10pm. Sat, noon to 10:45pm. Sun, noon to 9:30pm

A soda fountain on Metropolitan Avenue in the same fittings it has had since the 1920s, with a marble counter, wooden stools and a tin ceiling. The ice cream is made on site and the whipped cream is whipped to order. It takes cash. It does not open until three in the afternoon, and it is closed Monday and Tuesday, so the schedule needs checking against a showtime.

Wed, Thu and Sun, 3pm to 10pm. Fri and Sat, 3pm to 11pm. Closed Mon and Tue

A bar and kitchen by the Long Island Rail Road station with a long wooden counter, a couple of dozen taps and burgers and wings off the kitchen. It opens at noon every day and runs to two in the morning on Friday and Saturday. The crowd is local most nights and becomes a Stadium crowd when there is a show. There are booths in the back and the televisions are on.

Sun to Wed, noon to midnight. Thu, noon to 1am. Fri and Sat, noon to 2am

A bakery on Austin Street with a long glass case that starts with cakes by the slice and cannoli. Cheesecake fills the other end. The coffee counter is beside it. It opens at six in the morning and runs to midnight, later on the weekend, which makes it the most useful set of hours in Forest Hills. There are tables inside and a few on the sidewalk.

Sun to Thu, 6am to midnight. Fri and Sat, 6am to 1am