Nicholas Hirshon, who grew up in Forest Hills, is a journalism professor at St. John's University and a former reporter for the New York Daily News. His writing has also been featured in the New York Times, Hockey News, Montreal Gazette, and St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Hirshon published his first Images of America book, Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, in 2010. Ray Romano, a favorite son of Forest Hills, recalls in the foreword how the neighborhood impacted his path to the Emmy Award-winning series Everybody Loves Raymond.