Kew Gardens, Queens: Lefferts Boulevard, Borough Hall and Maple Grove

Lefferts Boulevard runs through the communities of Kew Gardens, Richmond Hill and South Ozone Park. It carries the 119th Street designation for its entire run, its northern terminus is Kew Gardens Road, and its southern terminus is inside John F. Kennedy International Airport. Where the boulevard bridges the Long Island Rail Road beside the Kew Gardens station, shops stand on the bridge itself.

The Kew Gardens Cinema is at 81-05 Lefferts Boulevard, operated by H & K Cinemas; Wikipedia describes it as a six-screen multiplex. Le Petit Paris is at 81-45 Lefferts Boulevard, where qns.com reports a pastry called the Flankie, which it says has a chocolate chip cookie dough crust and a vanilla pastry on the inside. The Kew Gardens Synagogue, Congregation Adath Yeshurun, is at 82-17 Lefferts Boulevard; the congregation's own account of itself says it grew from 14 members to 380, calls itself one of the oldest Jewish congregations in the central Queens area, and describes a history of about 65 years.

Austin's Ale House is at 82-70 Austin Street. Wikipedia gives 83-30 Austin Street as the address of the Kew Gardens post office, the USPS Kew Gardens Station. Nabhya, an Indian restaurant and bar, trades here as well; qns.com gives its address as 120-85 83rd Avenue. qns.com also describes the Homestead Gourmet Shop as a German and Polish delicatessen that has been trading for nearly 80 years. P.S. 099 Kew Gardens is at 82-37 Kew Gardens Road, and Wikipedia names Yeshiva Tifereth Moshe, Bais Yaakov of Queens and Yeshiva Shaar HaTorah among the schools here.

Queens Borough Hall is at 120-55 Queens Boulevard, and a county criminal court stands beside it on the same boulevard. Forgotten New York describes the plaza in front of Borough Hall as Women's Plaza. Newcombe Square, an NYC Parks property, lies between Queens Boulevard, Kew Gardens Road and 84th Street. The neighborhood is policed by the NYPD's 102nd Precinct, which in the department's own words "serves a portion of central Queens containing Kew Gardens, Richmond Hill East, Richmond Hill, Woodhaven, and the northern part of Ozone Park."

Maple Grove Cemetery is at 127-15 Kew Gardens Road, the address printed by the Friends of Maple Grove Cemetery, the cemetery's affiliated nonprofit. Wikipedia calls it a 65-acre (26 ha) cemetery in the Briarwood and Kew Gardens neighborhoods, and the grounds extend toward Briarwood. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004. Maple Grove Park is a separate NYC Parks property, Q220F, of 1.50 acres, carried as a Triangle/Plaza, in ZIP 11415 and Community Board 9.

The Ralph Bunche House is at 115-24 Grosvenor Road. It was designated a New York City individual landmark on May 17, 2005, in Landmarks Preservation Commission report LP-2175, and the National Register lists it as a National Historic Landmark. It is a private house. Ralph Bunche served as Under Secretary-General from 1954 until his resignation due to ill health in 1971, and died later that same year; the designation report's biography section records that he turned down an offer from Harry Truman in 1953 to be Assistant Secretary of State.

Wikipedia records that about 2,500 Iranian Jews settled in Kew Gardens after 1979. Forgotten New York says of the apartment house Kew Hall: "Built in 1922, it was based on Manhattan's Dakota Apartments."

In 1950, two Long Island Rail Road trains collided between the Kew Gardens and Jamaica stations, in Kew Gardens, killing 78 people and injuring 363. The disaster is conventionally known as the Richmond Hill disaster.

Austin's Ale House occupies the ground floor of the building Kitty Genovese lived in. The account of her murder that was repeated for decades — that 38 witnesses watched and did nothing — is not what happened. A 2007 examination found "no evidence for the presence of 38 witnesses, or that witnesses observed the murder, or that witnesses remained inactive," and The New York Times has acknowledged that its reporting "grossly exaggerated the number of witnesses and what they had perceived." Sophia Farrar went to Genovese and stayed with her until the ambulance came.

The Long Island Rail Road's Kew Gardens station is on Lefferts Boulevard at Austin Street.

The Kew Gardens–Union Turnpike subway station is at Union Turnpike and Queens Boulevard, on the border of Kew Gardens and Forest Hills, with entrances in each. The 121st Street station, at the neighborhood's southern edge, is at the intersection of 121st Street and Jamaica Avenue in Richmond Hill and Kew Gardens.

By road, the Jackie Robinson Parkway has its eastern terminus at the Kew Gardens Interchange in Kew Gardens. The parkway is 4.95 miles long and opened in July 1935. It was the Interboro Parkway before it was renamed for the Major League Baseball player Jackie Robinson in 1997 — a name the Landmarks Preservation Commission prints as "Interborough." The interchange itself lies at the neighborhood's northern edge, and Queens Boulevard and the Van Wyck Expressway both run at its margins: the Landmarks Preservation Commission's boundary line makes Queens Boulevard part of the northern edge, and Wikipedia's makes the Van Wyck the eastern one.