Vintage Map of Forest Hills, New York 1908 | Restored Historic Print

This vintage map of Forest Hills, New York was created in 1908 and published by August R. Ohman & Co. This restored edition brings the historic Forest Hills map to life while preserving the original linework and street grid, parks, waterways, and the dense web of transit lines that stitched the area to the rest of the city.

About This Historic Map

Drawn as a detailed street and transit survey, this map presents Forest Hills in the early 1900s, when the area was shaped by its Pennsylvania & L.I.R.R. lines, subways, trolleys, elevated railways, and free auto stages. The overall view shows the neighborhood highlighted in red at right, surrounded by a sprawling network of roads and rail routes reaching across the surrounding boroughs and toward the shorelines and inlets to the north.

Notable places shown on the map include Forest Hills itself, marked in bold red, along with the many transit corridors of the Pennsylvania & L.I.R.R. and the historic roads and rail lines that shaped daily travel around the area in the early twentieth century.

For anyone who grew up in Forest Hills, raised a family there, or still calls Queens home, this map is more than a historic view. It captures the tangle of trolley and subway lines, the green pockets of parkland, and the everyday routes that carried commuters through the neighborhood, along with the memories that keep people connected to Forest Hills.

A statement piece for any room, this reproduction is printed using KNOWOL's restored version of the 1908 Forest Hills map, preserving the historic character of the original while adding depth, warmth, and visual clarity. It makes a meaningful addition to a home, office, library, den, family room, or local history collection.