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| | Neighborhoods: Kew Gardens -- Congressman Anthony D. Weiner, New York's 9th District |
 | | Kew Gardens is a neighborhood in central Queens bounded to the north by the Interborough Parkway and Queens Boulevard, to the east by Kew Gardens Road, to the south by Myrtle Avenue, and to the west by Forest Park. |
 | | The greatest change was wrought by the opening of the Independent subway along Queens Boulevard to Union Turnpike on December 31, 1936; four months later, the subway was extended to Jamaica. |
 | | The neighborhood attracted many Chinese immigrants after 1965, about 2500 Iranian Jews arrived after the Iranian revolution of 1979, and immigrants from China, Iran, Afghanistan, Israel, the Soviet Union, India, Colombia, and Korea settled in Kew Gardens during the 1980s. |
| www.house.gov /weiner/neighborhoods/hoods_kewgardens.htm (576 words) |
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