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Interfaith Hospital of Queens, 175-10 88th Avenue, Jamaica. 60-beds. Opened 1963. Closed 1973. Irwin Sanitarium. In the 1970s, listed in WP:RS as Irwin Nursing Home, 109-43 Farmers Blvd, Hollis/St. Albans, Queens. [47] [48] Kew Gardens General Hospital, 80-02 Kew Gardens Road, Queens. Founded in 1941 in a former hotel.
Lefferts Boulevard is a major north–south thoroughfare in Queens, New York City, running through the communities of Kew Gardens, Richmond Hill, and South Ozone Park.Its northern end is at Kew Gardens Road, in Kew Gardens, and its southern end is located within John F. Kennedy International Airport.
Kew Gardens is a neighborhood in the central area of the New York City borough of Queens.Kew Gardens is bounded to the north by the Union Turnpike and the Jackie Robinson Parkway, to the east by the Van Wyck Expressway and 131st Street, to the south by Hillside Avenue, and to the west by Park Lane, Abingdon Road, and 118th Street.
The Lander College for Men opened in the fall of 2000, and before long moved onto its 7-acre (28,000 m 2) campus in Kew Gardens Hills. [1] It graduated its first class in 2003. Geoffrey Alderman , who was a Vice President of Touro College, was Dean of the Lander College for Men from its inception, and served until the end of February 2002.
Queens Boulevard is a major thoroughfare connecting Midtown Manhattan, via the Queensboro Bridge, to Jamaica in Queens, New York City, United States. It is 7.5 miles (12.1 km) long and forms part of New York State Route 25. Queens Boulevard runs northwest to southeast from Queens Plaza at the Queensboro Bridge entrance in Long Island City.
Growth to Kew Gardens Hills came when Kew Gardens, Queens, to the south, gained a subway line at Queens Boulevard in 1936 and Flushing Meadows–Corona Park, directly to the northwest of the neighborhood, hosted the 1939 New York World's Fair. Early residents were mostly German, Irish and Italian. Many were relocating from Brooklyn and Manhattan.
Unlike neighborhoods in the other four boroughs, some Queens neighborhood names are used as the town name in postal addresses. For example, whereas the town, state construction for all addresses in Manhattan is New York, New York (except in Marble Hill, where Bronx, New York is used), and all neighborhoods in Brooklyn use Brooklyn, New York, residents of College Point would use the ...
Queens Hospital Center (QHC), also known as NYC Health + Hospitals/Queens [2] and originally called Queens General Hospital, is a large public hospital campus in the Jamaica Hills and Hillcrest neighborhoods of Queens in New York City. It is operated by NYC Health + Hospitals, a public benefit corporation of the city.