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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.
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During the late 1920s, in anticipation of the arrival of the subway, land was bought by developers and was built up. One of the proposed stations would have been located at 71st Avenue. The Queens Boulevard Line was in part financed by a Public Works Administration (PWA) loan and grant of $25 million. The Queens Boulevard Line was one of the first lines built by the city-owned Independent Subway System (IND), and stretches between the IND Eighth Avenue Line in Manhattan and 179th Street and Hillside Avenue in Jamaica, Queens. Jackson Heights–Roosevelt Avenue (express): E F Ī Manhattan-bound R train arriving at the station World's Fair ( IND World's Fair Line demolished) LIRR: City Terminal Zone (at Forest Hills) F (all times) (two rush hour trains, peak direction)