Kew Gardens

Neighborhood · Queens

Kew Gardens sits in central Queens on the eastern edge of Forest Park, between Union Turnpike and Hillside Avenue, with Queens Borough Hall on Queens Boulevard at its northern end.

  • 0.73 square miles
  • 24,371 residents, 2020 Census
  • 135 street corners
  • 3 subway stations
  • 17 bus routes

Albon P. Man acquired the land in 1868, and in the early 1900s his heirs laid out a planned community, naming it Kew and later Kew Gardens for the noted botanical gardens in England; a Long Island Rail Road station went up on Lefferts Boulevard in 1909. Its houses and courtyard apartment buildings of the 1920s and 1930s lean heavily on English and neo-Tudor styles. Maple Grove Cemetery, opened in 1875, lies along Kew Gardens Road.

Sources: Kew Gardens, Queens (Wikipedia); Kew Gardens (Queens Community Board 9); Neighborhoods (Queens Community Board 9).

Map

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Kew Gardens borders five areas, and Kew Gardens Road holds more of its corners than any other street, 21 of 135.

Street map of Kew Gardens, Queens, outlined among Richmond Hill, Jamaica Hills-Briarwood, Forest Hills and Forest Park, with its three subway stations and Forest Park.Flushing Meadows-Corona ParkJamaica Hills-BriarwoodRichmond HillForest ParkForest Hills
  • Kew Gardens
  • A neighboring area
  • Park
  • A station in the list
  • Another station

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

Neighboring areas

Subway stations

  • Kew Gardens-Union Tpke lines E F accessible
  • Briarwood lines E F
  • Jamaica-Van Wyck lines E accessible

Getting around

Three subway stations and buses on 17 routes stop in or at the edge of Kew Gardens.

  • 3 subway stations
  • 2 of them listed by the MTA as fully accessible
  • 11 local bus routes
  • 6 express bus routes

Local bus routes

  • J90
  • Q10
  • Q37
  • Q45
  • Q46
  • Q48
  • Q54
  • Q56
  • Q60
  • Q80
  • T340

Express bus routes

  • QM18
  • QM21
  • QM63
  • QM64
  • QM65
  • QM68

Safety record

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

  • 675 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 5.0 a corner, on average
  • 5.2 the average Queens corner
  • 25 corners with a clean record

Signal or safety changes on City record, at 21 of its corners

Leading pedestrian intervals
12
Accessible pedestrian signals
11
Turn calming
3
Barnes Dance all-way crossings
1
Enhanced crossings
1
Safety Improvement Projects
1

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
  • 26,025 school-zone speed camera tickets at nine corners
  • 0 bus-lane camera tickets
Most speed tickets
Park Lane South & Mayfair Road, 20,222

People and homes

The 2020 Census counted 24,371 residents in Kew Gardens, about 33,400 per square mile.

  • 11,299 homes, 2020 Census
  • 695 homes added since April 2010, net, by City Planning's count

Half of its 1,519 residential lots hold buildings from 1925 or earlier, and 76% of them date from before 1940, by the City's tax lot records.

Parks

Parkland
14.4 acres of NYC Parks property
The largest pieces
Forest Park (12.8 acres) and Maple Grove Park (1.6 acres)

Streets and trees

Trees
2,418 in NYC Parks' records, most often pin oak, London planetree and Norway maple
Street with the most corners
Kew Gardens Road, with 21 of the area's 135
Height above sea level
From 40 feet at Union Turnpike & 132nd Street to 152 feet at Park Lane & 80th Road
Honorary street names
6 at its corners, enacted by local law

Schools

The City lists eight schools in Kew Gardens.

Public school
1
Charter and private schools
7

Public art

The City's public art inventory lists two works in Kew Gardens: Job (1987) and Dialogue with the Sun (1995).

  • 2 works of public art

Public safety

How complaints are counted

In 2025 the NYPD recorded 173 major felonies at places in Kew Gardens.

Recorded by the NYPD at places in Kew Gardens

  • 145 major felonies in 2024
  • 650 other felonies, misdemeanors and violations in 2025

In 2025, on the streets along the edge of Kew Gardens, the NYPD recorded another 27 major felonies. Counting the streets along its edge, in 2025 the NYPD recorded 8.2 major felonies for every thousand residents the 2020 Census counted in Kew Gardens.

Map of Kew Gardens: 6 shaded patches of its streets, each numbered with the major felonies the NYPD recorded at public places there in 2025; unshaded areas are not counted on this map.
Major felonies recorded at public places in Kew Gardens, 2025
  • 5 to 9
  • 10 to 19
  • 20 to 49
  • 50 to 99
  • 100 or more
  • Not shaded: fewer than 5, held back under the rules in How complaints are counted, parks and public-housing grounds, and land in no patch
Each shaded patch is a set of whole street blocks and corners of Kew Gardens, and its number counts the major felonies the NYPD recorded at public places on those streets and corners in 2025. The streets along or across the edge of Kew Gardens are not shaded. Homes, shelters, schools, child care, health care, houses of worship, hotels, mailboxes inside buildings, private parking lots and garages, buses and taxis, parks and cemeteries, highways, bridges, tunnels, the tramway and places the NYPD did not name count in the figure above for Kew Gardens and stay off the map. How complaints are counted gives every rule.
Police precincts
102nd (most of the area), 107th
Major felonies recorded at places in Kew Gardens, 2021 to 2025

From January to June 2026 the NYPD recorded 71 major felonies at places in Kew Gardens, against 97 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.