Kew Gardens Hills, Queens
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Kew Gardens Hills, also known 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 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).
Adjacent neighborhoods include Hillcrest (east), Jamaica, Briarwood and Kew Gardens (north), Forest Hills (west) Flushing (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. Main street and Jewel avenue are the main arteries in the western and southern sides respectively and kissena and 164st are the large streets in the eastern border.
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 Main Street shopping area is a main locus for commerce in the neighborhood.
Scenes from the 2000 movie Boiler Room were shot in Kew Gardens Hills.
[edit] Education
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.
Public schools located in Kew Gardens Hills include P.S. 164, P.S. 165, John Bowne High School and Townsend Harris High School at Queens College.
Yeshiva Chofetz Chaim and Yeshiva Ohr Hachaim are large yeshivas located in KGH. Lander College, a men's college part of Touro College, has a large campus in KGH. Other yeshivas located in Kew Gardens Hills include Shevach High School, Yeshiva of Central Queens, Yeshiva Tiferes Moshe, Yeshiva Yesodei Yishurun and Yeshiva Ketana.
[edit] Noted residents
- Fran Drescher, actress, from The Nanny. Drescher worked at the Main Street movie theater as a teenager.
- Art Garfunkel lived at 136-58 72nd Avenue
- Paul Simon
- 360, Rapper
- Jeff Kohn, Producer
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