Fresh Meadows, Queens
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Fresh Meadows is a neighborhood in northeastern portion of the borough of Queens in New York City, which is bordered to the east by Francis Lewis Boulevard, to the south by Union Turnpike, to the north by Kissena Park, and to the west by Utopia Parkway and Fresh Meadow Lane. It is located on the Flushing side of Hillcrest which divides Flushing and Jamaica.
Fresh Meadows is also the name of a housing development within the neighborhood, centered along 188th Street. The Fresh Meadows development was constructed in the late 1940s and is one of three post-World War II housing projects constructed by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company at that time, the others being Stuyvesant Town in Manhattan and Parkchester in the Bronx.
It is home to many middle class families and has a collective mix of Filipino, Hispanic and White populations. There is also an African American population within the large housing developments.
The Long Island Expressway runs through the neighborhood. Primary streets are 188th Street, Horace Harding Expressway, 73rd Avenue, Utopia Parkway, and Fresh Meadow Lane.
The 107th Precinct of the New York City Police Department (NYPD) covers this neighborhood.
Kissena Park and Cunningham Park are both located adjacent to Fresh Meadows.
Fresh Meadows is also home to St. Francis Preparatory School, the largest Catholic high school in the United States. Francis Lewis High School, P.S. 26 Rufus King school, M.S. 216 George J. Ryan Middle School, and P.S. 173 The Fresh Meadows School are other notable schools within its precincts.
