Local city information for Kew Gardens Hills, NY

Kew Gardens Hills, also sometimes incorrectly referred to as Kew Garden Hills, is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens. It is bordered to the West by Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, to the North by the Long Island Expressway, to the South by Union Turnpike and to the East by Parsons Boulevard (or by 164th Street depending on one's definition of the boundaries). Kew Gardens Hills roughly encompasses ZIP code 11367. The neighborhood is part of Queens Community Board 8.

Adjacent neighborhoods include Forest Hills (west), Hillcrest (east), Briarwood (south), and Queensboro Hill (north).

It is a mixed neighborhood of single family homes (detached or in rows) as well as two-story garden apartment buildings (mostly built during the years immediately following World War II), as well as some public housing projects in the Northeastern corner of the area. There are several homes in Kew Gardens Hills which predate Main Street, whose property was subject to eminent domain in the 1930s to widen 144th Street into the Main Street extension from North Flushing.

Main arteries through the neighborhood are Main Street, Jewel Avenue, and Kissena Boulevard. Main arteries around the perimeter of the neighborhood are Union Turnpike, Horace Harding Expressway, Kissena Boulevard and Parsons Boulevard. Highways to the neighborhood include the Long Island Expressway, Grand Central Parkway, Van Wyck Expressway, and the Jackie Robinson Parkway (Interborough).

The neighborhood contains a rapidly growing Orthodox and Haredi Jewish population and some Israelis, as well as smaller groups of Koreans, Chinese, Indians, Afghanis, and African Americans.

The commercial areas of the neighborhood include Main Street, Union Turnpike, Parsons Boulevard and Kissena Boulevard.

Scenes from the 2000 movie Boiler Room were shot in Kew Gardens Hills.

Kew Gardens Hills is home to Max & Mina's Ice Cream, named number 1 of the top 10 unique Ice Cream Parlors in America in Everybody Loves Ice Cream, the Whole Scoop on America's favorite treat by Shannos Jackson Arnold, Emmis Books, July 2004.

Kew Gardens Hills is also home to the Queens County Savings Bank building built in 1953 and modeled after Philadelphia's Independence Hall. The building also houses a full-size replica of the Liberty Bell.

There are two cemeteries in Kew Gardens Hills, Mount Hebron Cemetery and Cedar Grove, whose main entrances are located on the Horace Harding Expressway.

Two university campuses are located in Kew Gardens Hills. Located in the northern portion of Kew Gardens Hills is Queens College, a liberal arts college that is part of the City University of New York (CUNY) system. The CUNY Law School is also in Kew Gardens Hills, on Main Street.

Notable graduates of Queens College include native son Jerry Seinfeld, who was awarded an honorary doctorate in 1994, and Paul Simon.

Lander College, the men's college of Touro College, has a large campus on 150th Street at 75th Road.

Public schools located in Kew Gardens Hills include P.S. 164 , P.S. 165 , Robert F. Kennedy Community High School , John Bowne High School and Townsend Harris High School at Queens College.

Yeshiva Chofetz Chaim (76th Road & 147th Street) and Yeshiva Ohr Hachaim (71st Avenue & Main Street, a division of Touro College) are large yeshivas located in KGH.

Parochial schools located in Kew Gardens Hills include Roman Catholic Queen of Peace School, St. Nicholas of Tolentine, Shevach High School (Main Street at 75th Road), Mesivta Yesodei Yeshurun, Yeshiva of Central Queens (70th Road at 150th Street) and Yeshiva Ketana (Parsons Boulevard & 78th Road).

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