Forest Hills

<p> Forest Hills residents opposed to plans for affordable housing in Queens demonstrate at Lindsay's presidential campaign appearance at Radio City Music Hall on January 25, 1972.</p>

Aug 19, 1971

The Board of Estimate passes a motion to begin work on three 24-story apartment buildings to house 2,000 low-income and elderly citizens in Forest Hills, Queens, a middle-class community, as part of the Lindsay administration’s “scatter-site” housing initiative to promote mixed-income neighborhoods. Local Forest Hills residents, many of whom left Brooklyn’s Williamsburg and Crown Heights sections when the poor populations of those areas mushroomed, are adamantly opposed to the new development. Protests ensue.

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Forest Hills residents opposed to plans for affordable housing in Queens demonstrate at Lindsay's presidential campaign appearance at Radio City Music Hall on January 25, 1972.

Forest Hills residents demonstrate at Lindsay's presidential campaign appearance at Radio City Music Hall on January 25, 1972

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