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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.
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Where to stay in Kew Gardens
How the choice of base plays out on the ground.
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.
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Kew Gardens
Residential blocks held between Park Lane and 118th Street, with The Church-in-the-Gardens and the Ralph Johnson Bunche House a few turns apart. Rooms are few around here — worth securing early.Find hotels in Kew Gardensrooms northwest of Union Turnpike when Kew Gardens has noneForest Hills
The neighbouring Queens district off the Jackie Robinson Parkway, near enough that Kew Gardens Hills and Briarwood stay within reach.Find hotels in Forest HillsHotel links are affiliate links: booking through them may earn us a commission, at no extra cost to you. It never affects how places are ranked. How this works
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.
Common questions
What is the best area to stay in Kew Gardens?
Kew Gardens: day visits to Forest Park and the parish churches off Abingdon Road. Forest Hills: rooms northwest of Union Turnpike when Kew Gardens has none.
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Updated October 2026