I’ve lived in greater Forest Hills area for most of the time...when my son was born we bought an apartment in Richmond Hill North, but I’m divorced and live in Kew Gardens now..... I still go to ozone pizza on liberty Avenue and, of course, new park pizza on cross Bay boulevard.
Wow! Small world!
Ozone Pizza was down the block from John Adams, the high school I went to in the mid-70s. Didn’t go there very often because I usually would just go home after school, about a mile away. I did, however, around 2 or 3 years ago pass by the pizzeria, and was stunned to see that the same Italian family who owned it back in the 70s still did, some 40 plus years later! I didn’t know them at all, though. Just learned this by talking to what seemed to be a grandson who was working behind the counter. That neighborhood, over the past 30 or so years, has totally changed, from largely Italian to mostly Guyanese (Indian).
Anyway, speaking of John Adams High School...
“After his father abandoned the family, young [Jackie] Gleason began hanging around with a local gang, hustling pool.[12] He attended P.S. 73 Elementary School in Brooklyn; John Adams High School in Queens; and Bushwick High School in Brooklyn. ...”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Gleason#Early_life