Linden Hill (New York City, New York)

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Linden Hill is a working to middle class neighborhood in the northern part of the New York City borough of Queens. The neighborhood is part of the NYPD's 109th Precinct and Queens Community Board 7. Its borders are the Whitestone Expresway in the west to Willets Point Boulevard to the north, to 154th Street to the east, to 32nd. Street to the south .

Linden Hill was originally a rural estate owned by the Mitchell family. Ernest Mitchell owned an adjacent area known as Breezy Hill and his father owned the area now called Linden Hill.The two areas are sometimes referred to as Mitchell-Linden.

A major change in the rural nature of Linden Hill occurred in 1950. Builders envisioned a cooperative project to be set on Linden Hill which would provide middle-income housing to veterans of World War II and Korea. Under Section 213 of the Federal Housing Act of 1950, and at a cost of $15 million, the project was enacted. It providing homes for about 1400 residents.

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