{"id":267614,"date":"2026-06-15T18:29:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T18:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/267614\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T18:29:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T18:29:22","slug":"citg-community-house-in-forest-hills-gardens-unveils-newly-repaired-pool-qns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/267614\/","title":{"rendered":"CITG Community House in Forest Hills Gardens unveils newly repaired pool \u2013 QNS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/DSC_6836.jpg\" class=\"crop-center wp-post-image\" alt=\"citg\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/>\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The CITG Community House in Forest Hills Gardens unveiled its newly renovated pool area after multiple years of renovation work.<\/p>\n<p>Photo by Ramy Mahmoud<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/citgch.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">CITG Community House<\/a>, located at 15 Borage Pl. in <a href=\"https:\/\/qns.com\/neighborhoods\/forest-hills-gardens\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Forest Hills Gardens<\/a>, unveiled its newly renovated historic and iconic pool on Saturday, June 13.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/qns.com\/?attachment_id=613639\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-613639 nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-613639\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/DSC_6844.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\"  \/><\/a>Photo by Ramy Mahmoud<\/p>\n<p>This unveiling comes after more than two years of work to repair the pool.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/qns.com\/?attachment_id=613643\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-613643 nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-613643\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/DSC_6966.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\"  \/><\/a>The CITG Community House in Forest Hills Gardens. Photo by Ramy Mahmoud<\/p>\n<p>In addition to a tour of the new pool space, the celebration included children\u2019s entertainment from Here We Go Fitness and other local businesses, food, bites and refreshments and remarks from local officials, members of the CITG Community House Committee and the leader of the renovation and Community House Board Chair, John Stolz.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/qns.com\/?attachment_id=613642\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-613642 nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-613642\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/DSC_6936.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\"  \/><\/a>Community members celebrating the unveiling of the pool at the CITG Community House. Photo by Ramy Mahmoud<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/qns.com\/?attachment_id=613641\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-613641 nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-613641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/DSC_6911-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\"  \/><\/a>Photo by Ramy Mahmoud<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/qns.com\/?attachment_id=613640\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-613640 nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-613640\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/DSC_6909-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\"  \/><\/a>Photo by Ramy Mahmoud<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis year, the Community House celebrates its centennial anniversary. One hundred years of being a heart of Forest Hills Gardens. For a century, this institution has been a place for connection, family and shared memories, but as any owner of a historic property will tell you, 100 years of history comes with 100 years of wear and tear,\u201d Stolz said. \u201cAs with any historic restoration, the moment you open up the walls, or in our case, demolish the pool\u2019s finishes, the building reveals its secrets. We didn\u2019t just have a pool problem, we discovered a major rubble infiltration issue permeating our 100-year-old foundation. The pool project suddenly became a massive waterproof project.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/qns.com\/?attachment_id=613646\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-613646 nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-613646\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/John-Stolz-and-Lily-Zivkovic-and-Dave-Murphy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\"  \/><\/a>(Left to right) Community House Board Chair John Stolz, former Community House Executive Board Member Lily Zivkovic and Community House Director Dave Murphy. Photo by Ramy Mahmoud<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday is about celebrating our accomplishments, our resilience and our 100 years of serving Forest Hills Gardens,\u201d Stolz said. \u201cThe water is warm, the foundation is dry and the future of the Community House is brighter than ever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/qns.com\/?attachment_id=613644\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-613644 nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-613644\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/from-left-John-Stolz-and-Lily-Zivkovic-and-Audrey-Brown-and-Rob-Hof-and-Courtney-Evangelista-and-Sab.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\"  \/><\/a>Photo by Ramy Mahmoud<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The CITG Community House in Forest Hills Gardens unveiled its newly renovated pool area after multiple years of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267615,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,103380,103381,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-267614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-citg-community-house","tag-citg-community-house-pool","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}