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65-685: Strauss-Schulson was born in Forest Hills, Queens , New York City on June 24, 1980. He has one younger sister named Caren. Strauss-Schulson is Jewish and had a Bar Mitzvah ceremony. He attended Emerson College in Boston , Massachusetts , graduating in 2003. Following his graduation, he moved to Los Angeles . Strauss-Schulson started his career directing short films such as Larceny (1997) and Backlash (1998). He then worked on music videos, which led to 6 months spent in China and Thailand , where he directed

130-507: A Long Island Rail Road commuter rail station: the Forest Hills station . The southern part of the neighborhood is also close to the Kew Gardens station in neighboring Kew Gardens. The main thoroughfare is Queens Boulevard . The street's width and complexity have led to a large number of pedestrian deaths, earning it the moniker "Boulevard of Death". Metropolitan Avenue is known for its antique shops. The commercial heart of Forest Hills

195-604: A station in Forest Hills in 1911, and the Queens Boulevard trolley line opened two years later. The LIRR station was built with a brick courtyard, a clock tower, and arch-filled underpasses, fitting in with the Forest Hills Gardens section of the neighborhood. Since the railroad and trolley both connected to Manhattan, the presence of these two transportation options spurred development in Forest Hills. In 1914,

260-632: A Pennsylvania family that earned its wealth in the coal business. His grandfather, also called Cord Meyer II , was a property developer and a chairman of the New York State Democratic Committee . He was educated at St. Paul's School , New Hampshire, and attended Yale University , where he was a member of the Scroll and Key society, and as a senior was awarded the Alpheus Henry Snow Prize . After graduating in 1942, he joined

325-605: A branch location in Forest Hills. Plaza College , a small regionally-accredited college offering associates and bachelors degrees, is also located in Forest Hills. The Queens Public Library operates two branches in Forest Hills. The Forest Hills branch is located at 108-19 71st Avenue, while the North Forest Park branch is located at 98-27 Metropolitan Avenue. The following MTA Regional Bus Operations bus routes serve Forest Hills: The following New York City Subway stations serve Forest Hills: The neighborhood also has

390-456: A college education or higher. The percentage of Forest Hills and Rego Park students excelling in math rose from 42% in 2000 to 61% in 2011, and reading achievement rose from 48% to 49% during the same time period. Forest Hills and Rego Park's rate of elementary school student absenteeism is less than the rest of New York City. In Forest Hills and Rego Park, 10% of elementary school students missed twenty or more days per school year , lower than

455-407: A columnist and book author. From 1945 to 1958, Meyer was married to Mary Pinchot , who was later romantically linked to President John F. Kennedy . Her murder in 1964, eleven months after Kennedy's assassination , remains unresolved. Meyer was the son of a wealthy New York family. His father, Cord Meyer III, was a diplomat and real estate developer; his mother, Katherine Blair Thaw, belonged to

520-464: A golf course in the neighborhood in 1922 and it was open by 1924. However, the club was closed in 1938 so that developers could build housing atop the site of the course. Queens Boulevard was widened in the 1920s. Planning for a Queens Boulevard subway line started around this time. There were proposals for two stations in Forest Hills: an express station serving all trains on 71st Avenue , and

585-401: A local station at 75th Avenue . During the late 1920s, in anticipation of the arrival of the subway, land was bought by developers and was built up. Zoning laws were changed to allow fifteen-story apartment buildings to be built, and made the neighborhood of Forest Hills a more desirable place to live, especially as it was an express stop. Queens Borough President George Harvey predicted that

650-780: A longstanding association with tennis: the Forest Hills Stadium hosted the U.S. Open from 1915 through 1977 and the West Side Tennis Club offers grass courts for its members. The area's main commercial street, Austin Street, contains many restaurants and chain stores. Forest Hills is located in Queens Community District 6 and its ZIP Code is 11375. It is patrolled by the New York City Police Department 's 112th Precinct. Politically, Forest Hills

715-461: A low population of residents who are uninsured . In 2018, this population of uninsured residents was estimated to be 11%, slightly lower than the citywide rate of 12%. The concentration of fine particulate matter , the deadliest type of air pollutant , in Forest Hills and Rego Park is 0.0075 milligrams per cubic metre (7.5 × 10  oz/cu ft), equal to the city average. Ten percent of Forest Hills and Rego Park residents are smokers , which

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780-545: A number of individuals implicated by his father including Meyer, as well as Lyndon B. Johnson , David Sánchez Morales , David Phillips , Frank Sturgis , an assassin, he termed "French gunman grassy knoll" who many presume was Lucien Sarti , and William Harvey . The two sons alleged that their father cut the information from his memoirs, "American Spy: My Secret History in the CIA, Watergate and Beyond" , to avoid possible perjury charges. According to Hunt's widow and other children,

845-744: A particularly diverse mixture of upscale housing, ranging from single-family houses, attached townhouses, and both low-rise and high-rise apartment buildings. South of the Long Island Rail Road , the Forest Hills Gardens area is a private community that features some of the most expensive residential properties in Queens County. Until the 1970s, it was subject to restrictive covenants which, while containing no explicit economic, social or racial restrictions, effectively excluded "working-class people", as noted by Eric P. Nash in his 2002 New York Times book review of A Modern Arcadia . Forest Hills Gardens

910-595: A result, there are many Tudor-style homes in Forest Hills. The more sprawling ones are located in Forest Hills Gardens, but most are located in the section loosely bounded by 68th Avenue on the north; 72nd Road on the south; 108th Street on the west; and Grand Central Parkway on the east. The construction of this area used a prefabricated building technique. Each house was built from approximately 170 standardized precast concrete panels, fabricated off-site and positioned by crane. The houses were mostly constructed between 1910 and 1917. The Long Island Rail Road opened

975-528: A significant impact on the architectural integrity of the area. However, the Bukharian Jewish community, whose members have settled in the area in large numbers since the late 1990s, advocating the changes say the bigger homes are needed for their large extended families. On the northwestern edge of Forest Hills, on 62nd Drive and 108th Street immediately adjacent to the Long Island Expressway ,

1040-765: Is Yeshiva Gedolah Lubavitch, an ultra orthodox Chabad high school and branch of Tomchei Temimim . Bramson ORT College was an undergraduate college operated by the American branch of the Jewish charity World ORT . Its main campus was in Forest Hills, with a satellite campus in Brooklyn . It closed in February 2017 after failing to meet standards set by the New York State Education Department Board of Regents and losing its accreditation. Touro College/NYSCAS has

1105-515: Is a mile-long stretch of Austin Street between Yellowstone Boulevard and Ascan Avenue: the latter thoroughfare was named in 1909 by developer Frederick Backus for his own father, Ascan Backus, II. Forest Hills is bordered by two of the largest parks in Queens managed by the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation : the 1,255 acres (5.08 km ) Flushing Meadows–Corona Park , which

1170-548: Is a professional tennis player, features a lengthy championship game at the club, with distinctive shots of the surrounding community. The tennis stadium, which hosted numerous music concerts including The Beatles before the U.S. Open departed for Flushing Meadows, resumed hosting music concerts during the summer of 2013 when the British rock band Mumford & Sons played there to an overflowing crowd. Stadium officials have said they will now host as many as six music or cultural events at

1235-399: Is attributed to its seclusion and reputation as a "suburb within the city". As of 2018 , with a non-fatal assault rate of 14 per 100,000 people, Forest Hills and Rego Park's rate of violent crimes per capita is less than that of the city as a whole. The incarceration rate of 102 per 100,000 people is lower than that of the city as a whole. The 112th Precinct has a lower crime rate than in

1300-403: Is higher than the city's average of 87%. In 2018, 82% of residents described their health as "good", "very good", or "excellent", higher than the city's average of 78%. For every supermarket in Forest Hills and Rego Park, there are 5 bodegas . Long Island Jewish Forest Hills is located in Forest Hills. Forest Hills is covered by ZIP Code 11375. The United States Post Office operates

1365-631: Is higher than the median life expectancy of 81.2 for all New York City neighborhoods. The plurality of inhabitants are middle-aged and elderly adults: 31% are between the ages of 25–44, 28% between 45–64, and 19% over 64. The ratio of young and college-aged residents was lower, at 16% and 5% respectively. As of 2017, the median household income in Community Board 4 was $ 75,447. In 2018, an estimated 16% of Forest Hills and Rego Park residents lived in poverty, compared to 19% in all of Queens and 20% in all of New York City. One in seventeen residents (6%)

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1430-420: Is lower than the city average of 14% of residents being smokers. In Forest Hills and Rego Park, 19% of residents are obese , 7% are diabetic , and 20% have high blood pressure —compared to the citywide averages of 20%, 14%, and 24% respectively. In addition, 11% of children are obese, compared to the citywide average of 20%. Ninety-three percent of residents eat some fruits and vegetables every day, which

1495-828: Is represented by the New York City Council 's 29th District. It is located within New York's 6th congressional district . The development of adjacent Forest Park , a park on the southern end of Forest Hills, began in 1895. Starting in 1896, the landscape architecture firm of Olmsted, Olmsted & Eliot was contracted to provide a plan for the park. In 1906, the Cord Meyer Development Company, headed by Brooklyn attorney Cord Meyer, bought abutting land made up of six farms (those of Ascan Bakus, Casper Joost-Springsteen, Horatio N. Squire, Abram V. S. Lott, Sarah V. Bolmer, and James Van Siclen). The company then renamed

1560-482: Is the Forest Hills Co-op Houses , a New York City Housing Authority low-income housing project. Its construction provoked controversy among the residents in the more prestigious areas of Forest Hills when it was constructed in the early 1970s. The southeastern portion of Forest Hills contains Forest Hills South, a complex of 7 Georgian apartment buildings centered around a private English garden, which

1625-552: Is the site of two World's Fairs (in 1939 and 1964 ) and the iconic Unisphere ; as well as the 544 acres (2.20 km ) Forest Park . Within Forest Hills, parks and playgrounds include the Yellowstone Municipal Park ;– Katzman Playground (located on Yellowstone Boulevard, between 68th Avenue and 68th Road); the Annadale Playground (located on Yellowstone Boulevard, between 64th Road and 65th Avenue);

1690-587: The 22nd Marine Regiment and fought in the Pacific War ; he took part in the Battle of Eniwetok , and in the Battle of Guam as platoon leader, losing his left eye in a grenade attack. He became a first lieutenant and was awarded the Bronze Star Medal . He shared his war experiences, writing for The Atlantic Monthly . Meyer's twin brother, Quentin, was killed at Okinawa . He was an aide of Harold Stassen to

1755-591: The America's Cup yacht races in both 1899 and 1901. The Church-in-the-Gardens , St. Luke's Episcopal Church , and United States Post Office are listed on the National Register of Historic Places . Forest Hills and Rego Park are patrolled by the 112th Precinct of the NYPD , located at 68-40 Austin Street. The 112th Precinct ranked 6th safest out of 69 patrol areas for per-capita crime in 2010. The area's low crime rate

1820-614: The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), which claimed he was a security risk for having once stood at the same podium of a "notorious leftist", and refused to give him a security clearance. An internal CIA inquiry summarily dismissed the claims. According to Deborah Davis in her 1979 book Katharine the Great , Meyer became the "principal operative" of Operation Mockingbird , an alleged plan to secretly influence domestic and foreign media. Meyer befriended James Angleton , who in 1954 became

1885-614: The Forest Hills Station at 106-28 Queens Boulevard and the Parkside Station at 10119 Metropolitan Avenue. Forest Hills and Rego Park generally have a higher percentage of college-educated residents than the rest of the city as of 2018 . The majority of residents (62%) have a college education or higher, while 8% have less than a high school education and 30% are high school graduates or have some college education. By contrast, 39% of Queens residents and 43% of city residents have

1950-513: The West Side Tennis Club moved from Manhattan to Forest Hills Gardens. They constructed the Forest Hills Tennis Stadium , a stadium with approximately 13,000 seats, in 1923. The U.S. Open and its predecessor national championships were held there until 1978, making Forest Hills synonymous with tennis for generations. Forest Hills also had a golfing presence for a short time. The Queens Valley Golf Club started constructing

2015-467: The 1945 San Francisco United Nations Conference on International Organization . In 1947, he was elected president of the United World Federalists (UWF) , the organization he helped to fund. In year 1948, Cord was invited to attend the meeting of Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists (ECAS) and he met Albert Einstein , Leo Szilard and many of the other leading nuclear physicists . It

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2080-771: The 1990s, with crimes across all categories having decreased by 91.5% between 1990 and 2018. The precinct reported 0 murders, 18 rapes, 41 robberies, 53 felony assaults, 69 burglaries, 403 grand larcenies, and 37 grand larcenies auto in 2018. Forest Hills contains a New York City Fire Department (FDNY) fire station, Engine Co. 305/Ladder Co. 151, at 111-02 Queens Boulevard. As of 2018 , preterm births and births to teenage mothers are less common in Forest Hills and Rego Park than in other places citywide. In Forest Hills and Rego Park, there were 66 preterm births per 1,000 live births (compared to 87 per 1,000 citywide), and 4.6 births to teenage mothers per 1,000 live births (compared to 19.3 per 1,000 citywide). Forest Hills and Rego Park have

2145-578: The CIA's counter-intelligence chief. From 1954 until 1962, Meyer led the agency's International Organizations Division . Meyer headed the Covert Action Staff of the Directorate of Plans from 1962. From 1967 to 1973, Meyer was assistant deputy director of plans under Thomas Karamessines , and from 1973 to 1976 was CIA station chief in London . Some insiders incorrectly suspected that Cord Meyer

2210-445: The Cord Meyer Development Company in 1908. This land was to be used for "Forest Hills Gardens", a development on the southern side of Forest Hills. Grosvenor Atterbury , a renowned architect, was given the commission to design Forest Hills Gardens. The neighborhood was planned on the model of the garden communities of England, with its own inn, garage, and post office. It also included narrow, winding roads to limit through traffic. As

2275-921: The James Madison, the Cedar Apartments, the Howard Apartments, the James Monroe, the Nathan Hale, the St. Regis, the Roanoke, and the Kennedy House. Birnbaum and Kaskel's buildings largely remain standing, and are distinguished by their spacious lobbies, interior courtyards with fountains, curved brick corner terraces, and sunlit exposures. Other notable high-rise apartment buildings include the Continental (on 108th Street),

2340-753: The Pinnacle, Parker Towers, the Windsor and a 17-story luxury condo building completed in 2014, the Aston. Forest Hills was once the home of the U.S. Open tennis tournament. The event was held at the West Side Tennis Club before it moved to the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows Park , about 4 miles (6.4 km) away. When the Open was played at the tennis stadium,

2405-463: The Soviet Union started residing in Forest Hills. Based on data from the 2010 United States Census , the population of Forest Hills was 86,364, an increase of 1,318 (1.5%) from the 85,046 counted in 2000. Covering an area of 1,328.22 acres (537.51 ha), the neighborhood had a population density of 63.0 inhabitants per acre (40,300/sq mi; 15,600/km ). The racial makeup of the neighborhood

2470-783: The Willow Lake Playground (located off the Grand Central Parkway, between 71st and 72nd Avenues); the Ehrenreich-Austin Playground (located on Austin Street, between 76th Avenue and 76th Drive); and the Russell Sage Playground (located on 68th Avenue, between Booth and Austin Streets). Access to Flushing Meadows-Corona Park is restricted due to the fact that the Grand Central Parkway bisects

2535-501: The aggregate 600 acres (240 ha) "Forest Hills", after Forest Park. Single-family homes, designed by architects such as Robert Tappan and William Patterson , were constructed on these 600 acres. The roads of Forest Hills were laid out by 1910. The present-day Ascan Avenue in Forest Hills is named after Ascan Bakus. Margaret Sage , the founder of the Russell Sage Foundation , bought 142 acres (57 ha) of land from

2600-408: The alias Peter Parker he grew up at 20 Ingram Street ( 40°42′46″N 73°50′36″W  /  40.712805°N 73.843281°W  / 40.712805; -73.843281  ( 20 Ingram Street ) ). In the comics the home was depicted as a modest, two-story boarding house run by his Aunt May . Cord Meyer Cord Meyer IV ( / ˈ m aɪ . ər / ; November 10, 1920 – March 13, 2001)

2665-778: The citywide average of 20%. Additionally, 91% of high school students in Forest Hills and Rego Park graduate on time, more than the citywide average of 75%. Queens Community House provides free English classes to immigrants. Forest Hills contains the following public elementary schools which serve grades PK–5 unless otherwise indicated: The following public middle schools serve Forest Hills: There are no zoned high schools in New York City. The following high schools in Forest Hills serve grades 9–12: Private schools in Forest Hills include two Catholic schools (Our Lady of Mercy and Our Lady Queen of Martyrs) and The Kew-Forest School , an independent school. Also located in Forest Hills

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2730-572: The east. The area was originally referred to as "Whitepot". The current name comes from the Cord Meyer Development Company, which bought 660 acres (270 ha) in central Queens in 1906 and renamed it after Forest Park. Further development came in the 1920s and 1930s with the widening of Queens Boulevard through the neighborhood, as well as the opening of the New York City Subway 's Queens Boulevard Line . Forest Hills has

2795-471: The introduction of the subway to Forest Hills would turn Queens Boulevard into the " Park Avenue of Queens." Excavation for the line started in 1931, and the two subway stops in Forest Hills opened in 1936 along with six other stations on the Queens Boulevard line. The population nearly doubled in the late 1920s, going from 9,500 residents in 1927 to 18,207 residents three years later. By 1940, after

2860-405: The mid-1990s. In 1972, residents protested against Forest Hills Houses, a proposed public housing development with three 24-story buildings at 62nd Drive and 108th Street. It was part of Mayor John Lindsay "scatter-site" plan to construct public housing in neighborhoods that had none (as opposed to concentrating public housing in poor neighborhoods). White middle-class residents believed that

2925-508: The neighborhood and the park proper. Pedestrian access exists over the Grand Central Parkway at the Horace Harding Expressway, 64th Avenue, Jewel Avenue, and 72nd Road. A shuttered entrance at 78th Avenue, which previously lead to Willow Lake and provided pedestrian access to neighboring Kew Gardens Hills has been closed since 2001. Forest Hills was featured as the home setting for the comic book superhero Spider-Man , where under

2990-420: The public housing would depreciate the community's quality of life because poor residents would move into the housing. Advocates for the project accused residents of racism, since the proposed development's residents would be mostly people of minority races. Lindsay garnered significant opposition due to the controversy surrounding Forest Hills Houses. Mario Cuomo , a lawyer and the future Governor of New York,

3055-516: The stadium each season. Austin Street is a busy, modern street with shops, cafes, restaurants, and other stores that acts as the center of Forest Hills. It has become a place people visit from other neighborhoods because of its charm. Two monuments are erected in Forest Hills Gardens: One is a tribute to the victims of World War I, and the other is the mast of the Columbia , the winner of

3120-460: The subway opened, the population had increased to 32,500 residents. By this time, development had largely stopped due to World War II , and about 25 empty lots in Forest Hills Gardens were developed after the war. At the same time, the single-family houses in Forest Hills were being razed to create new apartment buildings. The land in Forest Hills Gardens was fully developed by the 1960s, but there would still be empty lots in Forest Hills itself until

3185-615: The third season of MTV Whatever Things (2005). The series became the most popular show on MTV Asia , with an international audience of over 250 million people. He has directed commercials and videos for the Academy Awards and the Emmy Awards , and clients including Pepsi , Lipton , Mountain Dew , Twix , The Early November , Nestlé , Microsoft , Old Spice , and Sierra Mist , among others. In 2008, Strauss-Schulson's short film Mano-a-Mano

3250-554: The tournament was commonly referred to merely as Forest Hills, just as All-England Lawn Tennis Association Championships are referred to simply as Wimbledon . In the 2001 movie The Royal Tenenbaums , Luke Wilson 's character plays a tennis match at the West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills. A pivotal scene in Alfred Hitchcock 's 1951 film Strangers on a Train , in which the main character (played by Farley Granger )

3315-547: The two sons took advantage of Hunt's loss of lucidity by coaching and exploiting him for financial gain. The Los Angeles Times said they examined the materials offered by the sons to support the story and found them to be "inconclusive". On April 19, 1945, Meyer married Mary Eno Pinchot , the second daughter of Amos Pinchot and Ruth Pickering Pinchot , in her mother's Park Avenue home in New York City . On 18 December 1956, Meyer's nine-year-old son, Michael (born 1947),

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3380-561: Was Deep Throat , a key informant in the Watergate Scandal whose identity was a mystery for more than 30 years. After the death of former CIA agent and Watergate figure E. Howard Hunt in 2007, Saint John Hunt and David Hunt revealed that their father had recorded several claims about himself and others being involved in a conspiracy to assassinate John F. Kennedy . In the April 5, 2007 issue of Rolling Stone , Saint John Hunt detailed

3445-501: Was 58.3% (48,822) White , 2.5% (2,086) African American , 0.1% (63) Native American , 24.2% (20,233) Asian , 0.0% (22) Pacific Islander , 0.4% (373) from other races , and 2.1% (1,719) from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 12.4% (10,410) of the population. The entirety of Community Board 6, which comprises Forest Hills and Rego Park, had 115,119 inhabitants as of NYC Health 's 2018 Community Health Profile, with an average life expectancy of 85.4 years. This

3510-475: Was a war veteran , a world federalist , a CIA official and a writer. After serving in World War II as a Marine officer in the Pacific War , where he was both injured and decorated , he led the United World Federalists in the years after the war. Around 1949, he began working for the CIA, where he became a high-level operative, retiring in 1977. After retiring from intelligence work in 1977, Meyer wrote as

3575-479: Was assigned to mediate the dispute and succeeded in halving the size of the project. The New York City Housing Authority ultimately implemented a rigorous screening process for prospective residents of Forest Hills Houses, with quotas for elderly and poorer tenants. During the 1970s and 1980s, the neighborhood became more racially diverse. Discriminatory covenants for prospective Forest Hills Gardens residents were lifted, and immigrants from Iran, India, Israel, and

3640-775: Was formerly a mapped portion of 113th Street prior to the complex's construction in 1939. This enclave was designed by Philip Birnbaum . Philip Birnbaum and Alfred Kaskel also designed and constructed numerous apartment buildings scattered throughout Forest Hills. These include the Grover Cleveland, the Van Buren Apartments, the Thomas Jefferson, the Maplewood, the Richard Apartments, the Stephen Apartments,

3705-573: Was hit by a car and killed. Meyer had two surviving sons, Quentin, born in November 1945, and Mark, born in 1950. Meyer and his wife Mary divorced in 1958. On 12 October 1964, his former wife Mary was shot dead by an unknown assailant alongside the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal . Her sister and brother-in-law Benjamin C. Bradlee , later the executive editor of The Washington Post , caught James Angleton breaking into Pinchot's residence. Angleton apparently

3770-491: Was looking for Mary Meyer's diary that allegedly contained details of her love affair with John F. Kennedy , the recently assassinated U.S. President . In 1966, Meyer married Starke Patteson Anderson. He retired from the CIA in 1977. Following retirement, Meyer became a syndicated columnist and wrote several books, including an autobiography. Meyer died of lymphoma on March 13, 2001. A photo of his meeting with Albert Einstein in 1948 has been widely circulated on

3835-405: Was met with a positive reaction from film critics. His sophomore film, the horror comedy The Final Girls for Sony Pictures Entertainment and Groundswell Productions, premiered at South by Southwest Film Festival on March 13, 2015, to positive reviews. The film stars Taissa Farmiga , Malin Åkerman , Nina Dobrev , Adam DeVine , Thomas Middleditch , Alia Shawkat , and Alexander Ludwig . It

3900-588: Was named "Best Community" in 2007 by Cottage Living magazine. The adjacent Van Court community also contains a number of detached single-family homes. There are also attached townhouses near the Westside Tennis Center and detached frame houses near Metropolitan Avenue. The north side of Forest Hills is home to the Cord Meyer community, which contains detached single-family homes. Teardowns and their replacement with larger single family residences has had

3965-411: Was released by Warner Bros. on February 14, 2019. Films Television Short films Forest Hills, Queens Forest Hills is a neighborhood in the central portion of the borough of Queens in New York City . It is adjacent to Corona to the north, Rego Park and Glendale to the west, Forest Park to the south, Kew Gardens to the southeast, and Flushing Meadows–Corona Park to

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4030-469: Was released on October 9, 2015 in a limited release and through video on demand by Stage 6 Films . In October 2015, it was reported that TBS had given a pilot order to a comedy series co-created by Strauss-Schulson and Matt Fogel. The pilot was not ordered to series. Strauss-Schulson's third feature film as director is the comedy Isn't It Romantic for New Line Cinema, starring Rebel Wilson , Liam Hemsworth , DeVine, and Priyanka Chopra . The film

4095-535: Was selected to screen at the South by Southwest Film Festival. The following year, he went back to South by Southwest to premiere his short film Big Pussy , which was subsequently screened at the Just For Laughs Comedy Festival in Montreal, Quebec , Canada . Strauss-Schulson's first feature film, A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas for New Line Cinema and Mandate Pictures , was released by Warner Bros. on November 4, 2011. The film starred Kal Penn , John Cho , Neil Patrick Harris , and Patton Oswalt , and

4160-463: Was unemployed, compared to 8% in Queens and 9% in New York City. Rent burden, or the percentage of residents who have difficulty paying their rent, is 50% in Forest Hills and Rego Park, lower than the boroughwide and citywide rates of 53% and 51% respectively. Based on this calculation, as of 2018 , Forest Hills and Rego Park is considered to be high-income relative to the rest of the city and not gentrifying . The southern part of Forest Hills contains

4225-466: Was when Albert Einstein joined UWF and showed his support and also assisted UEF in fundraising on numerous occasions. In 1949, Cord resigned and was succeeded by Alan Cranstone . Around 1949, Meyer started working for the Central Intelligence Agency , joining the organization in 1951 at the invitation of Allen Dulles . At first he worked at the Office of Policy Coordination under former OSS man, Frank Wisner . In 1953, Meyer came under attack by

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