Dec. 29: Won't Be Long Until 2011

So you've made it almost completely through the holiday season, with just New Year's Day left to go. How are you going to spend the last days of your 2010? Hopefully, you'll be spending them with Patch.

We've got a lot of useful information for you about the coming year, and about programs that will continue from 2010 into 2011.

So stick with us, and we'll help you sort out everything that's happening in your neighborhood.

Here are the five things that you need to know in Forest Hills today, and into the new year:

1.     Many streets in the area are still knee-deep in snow. Let us know if your street is cleared, and check out some shots of the snow in the area .

2.     Keep up with our series of year-end op-ed's , to see what's on the minds of community leaders and politicians in the area.

3.     Have you checked out some of our neighboring Patches? We've got them in Douglaston, Little Neck, Bayside, and all over Brooklyn.

4.     Forest Hills resident William Engel was knighted last month by the French government. Read all about it .

5.     Was the holiday season a bellweather for a new economic recovery in Forest Hills? Check to see what local retailers said.