Beloved Cookie Chain To Open Forest Hills Store On Friday

FOREST HILLS, QUEENS — Neighbors in Forest Hills don't have to go farther than Austin Street to eat giant, gooey cookies as of Friday.

Chip City, a local chain known for its oversized cookies that come in an array of fun flavors, is opening its first Forest Hills outpost, located at 72-34 Austin Street, at 11 a.m. on Jan 14.

The grand opening, which has been in the works for a few months, also marks the opening of Chip City's tenth location in New York; the cookie company's flagship location is in Astoria, and it operates three other shops in northwest Queens, in addition to five locations across Brooklyn and Manhattan.

In celebration of its citywide cookie expansion, the first 100 customers at Forest Hill's Chip City will get to pick out one of the shop's cookies-of-the-day; similar to other Chip City stores, the Forest Hills outpost will stock four cookie flavors per-day that rotate out on a regular basis.

The opening comes a few days before National Popcorn Day, on Jan. 19, which Chip City is celebrating with a 'Chocolate Popcorn Crunch' cookie created in partnership with Orville Redenbacher’s.

Neighbors in Forest Hills have the chance to sample that chocolate chip and popcorn-topped cookie on opening day (but only at full price, since it's excluded from the free cookie promotional).

The Chocolate Popcorn Crunch cookie will debut across all ten Chip City stores the following week.

Chip City on Austin Street will be open from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily.