Homes & Real Estate In Fresh Meadows, New York

Borders:

• East by Francis Lewis Boulevard
• South by Union Turnpike
• North by Kissena Park
• West by Utopia Parkway and Fresh Meadows Lane.

Two zip codes compose Fresh Meadows: 11365 and 11366. The Energized Realty Group works mostlty with 11365; 11366, south of Jewel Avenue to Union Turnpike, is at the border of our area of specialization.

Fresh Meadows is also the name of a housing development within the neighborhood, centered along 188th Street. The Fresh Meadows development was constructed in the late 1940s and was intended for lower middle & middle class residents. It is one of three postwar housing developments constructed by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company at that time, the others being Stuyvesant Town in Manhattan and Parkchester in the Bronx.

It is home to many hard working, lower middle to middle class families of several different ethnicities.

The Long Island Expressway runs through the neighborhood. Primary streets are 188th Street, Horace Harding Expressway, 73rd Avenue, Utopia Parkway, and Fresh Meadows Lane.

The 107th Precinct of the New York City Police Department (NYPD) covers this neighborhood.

Kissena Park and Cunningham Park are both located adjacent to Fresh Meadows.

Fresh Meadows is also home to St. Francis Preparatory School, the largest Catholic high school in the United States. Francis Lewis High School, P.S. 26 (Rufus King school), M.S. 216 (George J. Ryan Middle School), and P.S. 173 (The Fresh Meadows School) are other notable schools within its precincts.

See the Forgotten NY Neighborhoods site on Fresh Meadows.