Kew Gardens Hills, Queens
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Kew Gardens 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 Flushing, to the South by Union Turnpike and to the East by 164th Street (or by Utopia Parkway depending on one's definition of the boundaries). It is characterized primarily by two-story garden apartment buildings (mostly built during the years immediately following World War II), multi-family row houses, and some public housing projects in the Northeastern corner of the area. The neighborhood contains a rapidly growing Orthodox and Haredi Jewish population, as well as smaller groups of Koreans, Chinese, Indians, Afghanis, and African Americans.
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. Notable graduates include native son Jerry Seinfeld, who was awarded an honorary doctorate in 1995.
Scenes from the 2000 movie Boiler Room were shot in Kew Gardens Hills.
[edit] Noted residents
- Fran Drescher, actress, from The Nanny. Drescher worked at the Main Street movie theater as a teenager.
- Art Garfunkel
- Paul Simon
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