Kew Gardens is an
upper-
middle class neighborhood in the central area of the
New York City borough of
Queens. Kew Gardens, shaped roughly like a triangle, is bounded to the north by the
Jackie Robinson Parkway (formerly the Interboro Parkway), to the east by Van Wyck Expressway and 131st Street, to the south by
Hillside Avenue, and to the west by Park Lane, Abingdon Road, and 118th Street.
Forest Park and the neighborhood of
Forest Hills are to the west,
Flushing Meadows–Corona Park north,
Richmond Hill south,
Briarwood southeast, and
Kew Gardens Hills east.