Does anyone still live in Kew Gardens Hills?

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Permalink Reply by Lisa Wartur on March 14, 2008 at 12:37am

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Hi Claire. I lived there up until about 6 months ago (I'm living in Vancouver, British Columbia now). My parents still live there, right around the corner from P.S. 164. The neighborhood is so different than it was when we were kids. It's predominantly an Orthodox community and many of the stores on Main Street are Kosher eateries, etc. The Vleigh branch of the Queens Library is still there and there is the Main Street Movie Theatre, which shows first-run movies and tickets are pretty reasonable. Most of the stores that were there in the 60's and 70's are gone now.

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Permalink Reply by Michelle Tenzer Fuchs on March 17, 2008 at 10:33pm

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I live on Long Island but my mom still lives there and I go to visit her often. I was just at the Main St movies this weekend. I took 2 of my kids to see Horton Hears a Who. It is a multiplex now and it is hard to believe the whole place was dedicated to one main feature. The Baskin Robbins on the corner near the movies is now a bank. The Queens County Savings Bank with the cracked liberty bell is still there but the benches with the chess boards have been replaced by actual playground equipment. I took my kids to play in the PS 164 playground a few months back on a Saturday when it was totally emply They played basketball and skateboarded. It i still a nice quiet neighborhood--at least I enjoy walking around there when I visit my mom.

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Permalink Reply by Susan Wilkins Galante on April 6, 2008 at 10:47pm

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Hello everyone,

I live in Howard Beach which is 15 minutes away. I so happened to go there last evening. My husband took me out for dinner at Angelos for my Birthday. The food is awesome. It is one of the best Italian Restaurants around. That is coming from my husband who is Sicilian and his mother is the best cook around. It is on the corner now. It moved from the middle of the block. The neighborhood still looks nice and clean. it is mostly an orthodox neighborhood. They built a lot of temples all over. Also on my old block 70th Ave and 137th St., they built some in people's houses. I couldn't believe it. On Main and Jewel the 7eleven is still there. It's been there since 1976. Most of the stores have changed.

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Permalink Reply by CINDY ADAMS on June 17, 2008 at 8:51pm

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I used to live on 76th rd. & Main Street---now I am in Forest Hills, but I sometimes drive into the old "hood". Some of the houses are turning into huge monsters of "dwellings", and then there is little Russia going on there, and little Israel, etc...What used to be; just is not anymore. When some of my non-Jewish friends request something Kosher.....I go straight to Main Street, whether it is a Kosher Bakery or even Brach's, I manage to fulfill those cravings....MainStreet is empty on Saturdays....but you already know that....except for the people traffic.

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Permalink Reply by Jeff Platsky on June 20, 2008 at 7:34pm

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When my kids saw the old neighborhood for the first time (we were there for some falafel before going to Shea) they called it the "chood" for obvious reasons.

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Permalink Reply by Jeffrey Salgo on September 25, 2008 at 2:16pm

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I MOVED INTO MY PARENTS HOUSE ON 76TH AVENUE RIGHT NEXT TO PS 164 AND THE SCHOOL YARD. AND KIDS ARE STILL HITTING BALLS INTO MY YARD
JEFFREY SALGO

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