Kew Gardens

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Kew Gardens is a neighborhood in central Queens bounded to the north by the Jackie Robinson Parkway (formerly Interborough Parkway), to the east by Van Wyck Expressway and 131st Street, to the south by Hillside Avenue, and to the west by Babbage Street and Park Lane. Forest Park and the neighborhood of Forest Hills and Forest Hills Gardens lie west of the neighborhood.

The neighborhood is accessible thanks to its surrounding expressways and the Union Turnpike-Kew Gardens subway station. The commute on the E or F train to Midtown Manhattan is about thirty minutes. Kew Gardens was one of seven planned garden communities built in Queens from the late 19th Century to 1950. Much of the area was acquired in 1868 by Englishman Albon P. Man, who developed the neighborhood of Hollis Hill to the south, chiefly along Jamaica Avenue, while leaving the hilly land to the north undeveloped.

Kew Gardens is also home to The Queens Borough Hall, Queens Criminal Courts Center and the Queens House of Detention all nestled in a small triangle in the extreme north east, bounded by Union Turnpike, Van Wyck Expressway and Queens Blvd.