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Forest Hills Gardens, the model suburb inside the city
Forest Hills Gardens, Queens
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The Russell Sage Foundation bought 142 acres beside the Long Island Rail Road in 1909 and hired Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. and Grosvenor Atterbury to lay out a garden suburb inside the city limits. Atterbury cast the houses from precast concrete panels swung into place by crane, one of the first serious attempts at mass-produced housing in America. The curving streets, the brick station plaza and the half-timbering were copied by developers for decades. The homes sold above what working families could pay, which was the one thing the foundation had set out to fix.
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