Fresh Meadows, Queens "Fresh Meadows"
Fresh Meadows Fresh Meadows is a residentiary neighborhood in the northeastern section of the New York City borough of Queens.
Fresh Meadows is positioned in the south part of Flushing and is bordered to the north by the Fresh Meadows Playground and Horace Harding Expressway, to the west by South Flushing and the sub-neighborhood of Hillcrest, to the east by Cunningham Park, and to the south by Union Turnpike and St.
Fresh Meadows was part of the Town of Flushing, which had large areas of salt meadows, such as the initial "Flushing Meadows".
Fresh Meadows Road (which today follows the same route under a number of names, including Fresh Meadows Lane and part of Utopia Parkway) traversed the area, and served as the route from the landing place at Whitestone to the village of Jamaica.
To facilitate the transport of military supplies from British ships using the Whitestone Landing and the troops encamped further east, a new road was assembled to connect the Fresh Meadows Road with Hempstead.
This road began at what is now the intersection of Utopia Parkway and 73rd Avenue, near a small-town landmark along the Fresh Meadows Road: the remnants of a large tree that had burned after being hit by lightning, and that was known as the "Black Stump".
Fresh Meadow Country Club opened in 1923. The nation club was titled after an region northeast of Flushing even though it was actually positioned southeast of Flushing, just south of what is presently the Long Island Expressway near 183rd Street. The golf course was designed by A.W.
In February 1946, the territory was sold to New York Life Insurance Company, and it became the Fresh Meadows Housing Development. New York Life Insurance Company did not allow black individuals to live in the Fresh Meadows Housing Development. It was also assembled to home small-town World War II veterans.
The complex and its eponymous shopping center were among the first in the United States designed primarily to accommodate automobile clean water pedestrian traffic. In 1949, Lewis Mumford described the Fresh Meadows housing complex as "perhaps the most positive and exhilarating example of large-scale improve planning in this country." Until 2004, the neighborhood was home to Klein Farm, the last surviving commercial farm in New York City, positioned on 73rd Avenue between 194th and 195th Streets. Efforts by small-town inhabitants and civic officials are presently under way to reopen the farm. Fresh Meadows is home to an estimated populace of 13,286.
Its inhabitants have a median income of $75,123, and the neighborhood has a cost of living at approximately twice the nationwide average. According to recent census data, 44 percent of its 16,100 inhabitants are white, 24 percent Asian, 14 percent black, 29 percent Hispanic and 3 percent describe themselves as multiracial. The neighborhood has historically and traditionally been home to one of New York City's most grow Jewish communities.
It neighbors are Jamaica Hills and Jamaica Estates to the south, Briarwood and Kew Gardens Hills to the west, and Pomonok, Utopia, and Fresh Meadows to the north and east.
Most citizens in the northeastern part of Hillcrest self-identify as being in Fresh Meadows, as does everyone living in the close-by "Utopia" area.
Utopia, a middle class neighborhood, is in the southeastern part of Fresh Meadows, bordered by Utopia Parkway to the west, 188th Street to the east, Union Turnpike to the south, and 73rd Avenue to the north.
It adjoins the neighborhoods of Jamaica Estates, Hillcrest, and Fresh Meadows.
Utopia is a neighborhood consisting of mainly homes with tree-lined streets, and The Utopia Playground and Hillcrest branch of the Queen Public Library serve inhabitants of this area. The Queens Public Library manages the Fresh Meadows Library and the United States Postal Service operates the Fresh Meadows Finance Post Office. The Utopia Post Office is in Utopia. The neighborhood is served by New York City Transit bus routes Q17, Q26, Q30, Q31, Q46, Q88, QM1, QM5, QM6, QM7, QM8.
Fresh Meadows is not a primary transportation hub, as no New York City Subway or Long Island Rail Road stations are positioned inside its boundaries, though a New York City Subway extension was proposed in the 1970s.
The New York City Department of Education operates enhance schools.
Public schools positioned in Fresh Meadows include Francis Lewis High School, George J.
173 The Fresh Meadows School.
Fresh Meadows is also home to St.
John's University lies on the Hillcrest border at Union Turnpike, with the Hillcrest Jewish Center the building also utilizing space for The Summit School, a state-approved, tuition-free private school serving students with special education needs positioned slightly east on the same street.
On December 22, 1980, The Japanese School of New York moved from Jamaica Estates, Queens into Fresh Meadows, in the former P.S.
179. In 1991 the school moved to Yonkers in Westchester County, New York. The Japanese Weekend School of New York, a Japanese weekend school, holds classes at The Rufus King School (P.S.26 - Q).
Japanese Weekend School of New York.
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