Kew Gardens Hills

Neighborhood · Queens

Kew Gardens Hills spreads east from Flushing Meadows-Corona Park toward Kissena and Parsons Boulevards, south of the Long Island Expressway.

  • 1.23 square miles
  • 36,009 residents, 2020 Census
  • 171 street corners
  • 19 bus routes

Once called Queens Valley, the area was farmland, much of it sold to golf and country clubs by the 1920s; developers renamed it for the prestige of nearby Kew Gardens, and growth followed a 1936 subway line there and the 1939 World's Fair. Queens College, opened in 1937, anchors its northern end, and Parkway Village, a Colonial Revival complex built in the late 1940s for United Nations employees, joined the National Register in 2012. Main Street has many kosher restaurants and Jewish-themed stores.

Sources: Kew Gardens Hills, Queens (Wikipedia); Kew Gardens Hills (Queens Community Board 8); NPGallery Asset Detail: Parkway Village (National Park Service); Queens College, City University of New York (Wikipedia).

Map

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Kew Gardens Hills borders five areas, and 147th Street holds more of its corners than any other street, 25 of 171.

Street map of Kew Gardens Hills, Queens, outlined among Pomonok-Electchester-Hillcrest, Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, Mount Hebron & Cedar Grove Cemeteries and Jamaica Hills-Briarwood, with Judge Moses Weinstein Playground.Queensboro HillPomonok-Electchester-HillcrestJamaica Hills-BriarwoodFlushing Meadows-Corona ParkMount Hebron & Cedar Grove Cemeteries
  • Kew Gardens Hills
  • A neighboring area
  • Park
  • Another station

Neighborhood areas and streets: NYC Department of City Planning. Parks: NYC Parks. Stations: MTA.

Neighboring areas

Getting around

Buses on 19 routes stop in or at the edge of Kew Gardens Hills.

  • 10 local bus routes
  • 9 express bus routes

Local bus routes

  • Q17
  • Q20
  • Q25
  • Q44-SBS
  • Q45
  • Q46
  • Q48
  • Q64
  • Q74
  • Q88

Express bus routes

  • QM1
  • QM4
  • QM5
  • QM6
  • QM7
  • QM8
  • QM31
  • QM35
  • QM44

Safety record

Between 2021 and 2025, its corners averaged fewer police-reported crashes than the average Queens corner.

  • 681 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 4.0 a corner, on average
  • 5.2 the average Queens corner
  • 40 corners with a clean record

Signal or safety changes on City record, at 22 of its corners

Leading pedestrian intervals
15
Accessible pedestrian signals
5
Turn calming
2
Barnes Dance all-way crossings
2
Safety Improvement Projects
2

Camera tickets

In 2025 its corners had more school-zone speed camera tickets than red-light or bus-lane tickets.

  • 0 red-light camera tickets
  • 12,868 school-zone speed camera tickets at ten corners
  • 0 bus-lane camera tickets
Most speed tickets
Union Turnpike & Main Street, 8,033

People and homes

The 2020 Census counted 36,009 residents in Kew Gardens Hills, about 29,300 per square mile.

  • 13,714 homes, 2020 Census
  • 214 homes added since April 2010, net, by City Planning's count

Half of its 3,518 residential lots hold buildings from 1945 or earlier, and 6% of them date from before 1940, by the City's tax lot records.

Parks

Parkland
7.4 acres of NYC Parks property
The largest pieces
Judge Moses Weinstein Playground (3.2 acres), Vleigh Playground (2.2 acres) and Queens Valley Playground (1 acre)

Streets and trees

Trees
4,017 in NYC Parks' records, most often London planetree, pin oak and thornless honeylocust
Street with the most corners
147th Street, with 25 of the area's 171
Height above sea level
From 27 feet at 136th Street & Park Drive East to 119 feet at Parsons Boulevard & Village Road at 82nd Drive
Honorary street names
6 at its corners, enacted by local law

Schools and libraries

The City lists 15 schools and one library in Kew Gardens Hills.

Public schools
8
Charter and private schools
7
Library
Kew Gardens Hills Library

Public art

The City's public art inventory lists one work in Kew Gardens Hills: Haym Salomon (1976).

  • 1 work of public art

Public safety

How complaints are counted

In 2025 the NYPD recorded 215 major felonies at places in Kew Gardens Hills.

Recorded by the NYPD at places in Kew Gardens Hills

  • 219 major felonies in 2024
  • 563 other felonies, misdemeanors and violations in 2025

In 2025, on the streets along the edge of Kew Gardens Hills, the NYPD recorded another 88 major felonies. Counting the streets along its edge, in 2025 the NYPD recorded 8.4 major felonies for every thousand residents the 2020 Census counted in Kew Gardens Hills.

Police precinct
107th
Major felonies recorded at places in Kew Gardens Hills, 2021 to 2025

From January to June 2026 the NYPD recorded 125 major felonies at places in Kew Gardens Hills, against 103 in the same months of 2025.

Sources: the NYPD's Complaint Data Historic, updated April 28, 2026, and Complaint Data Current (Year To Date), updated July 27, 2026, on NYC Open Data. Figures to June 30, 2026.

Street corners

How the figures above are measured: Methodology.