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Kew Gardens, New York City — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Kew Gardens lies in central Queens. Forest Park edges it to the west, the Van Wyck Expressway to the east, and Hillside Avenue to the south.
About Kew Gardens
Where to stay in Kew Gardens
Where you base yourself shapes the visit — here's the character of each area.
Few hotels take bookings in Kew Gardens. Kew Gardens is residential through and through, its streets running between Park Lane and the Van Wyck Expressway, so most visitors sleep elsewhere in New York City and come out for Forest Park and the churches. Briarwood lies southeast and Kew Gardens Hills east, both within the same run of Queens streets.
Flushing Meadows-Corona Park is north.
About Kew Gardens
What are the main landmarks in Kew Gardens?
Churches carry the register here. The Church-in-the-Gardens and the Church of the Resurrection stand within a few blocks of each other, two parishes among the handful of buildings that give this stretch of Queens its listed addresses. A third is St. Luke's Episcopal Church.
The Ralph Johnson Bunche House is the lone dwelling on the list, standing apart from the parishes on a street between Abingdon Road and Hillside Avenue.
What is the history of Kew Gardens?
The record begins in 1879. That year is what fixes Kew Gardens in the register as a named place inside the borough of Queens, a neighbourhood whose limits are traced by roads rather than by any river or ridge. Parkways draw the north.
Union Turnpike and the Jackie Robinson Parkway run along that side, the Van Wyck Expressway and 131st Street mark the east, and Hillside Avenue closes the south.
Where is Kew Gardens?
Parkland sits on one side. Forest Park lies off the western edge, Forest Hills to the northwest, Richmond Hill to the south, and Kew Gardens Hills to the east.
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Updated September 2026