Forest Hills Jewish Center, a fixture in Queens, NY, will sell its building and relocate

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 Congregants at the Forest Hills Jewish Center, a fixture in Queens since the late 1940s, approved the sale Thursday evening of their block-long building. They will now begin the process of finding a new home in the same area.

“The vote was overwhelmingly for the sale,” said Carl Koerner, chair of the building committee.

The 400-family unit Conservative congregation’s synagogue at 106-06 Queens Boulevard has been on the market for about a year. The asking price was $50 million, but Koerner said the terms of the sale to a developer would not be made public until it is approved by the state attorney general.

The 70-year-old building “doesn’t serve the needs of our congregation,” explained Rabbi Gerald Skolnik, the congregation’s spiritual leader since 1982.