Kew Gardens Civic Association, Inc.

Activities and Programs - Past and planned

Some Past Programs and Activities

KGCA led the campaign to keep a 280-bed nursing home from being developed in an incompatable residential area of single family homes. The U.S Department of Housing and Urban Development agreed with the Association. It declined to guarantee a requested $30,000,000 mortgage, basing its decision on environmental considerations, thus effectively terminating the project.

KGCA, along with other community groups, convinced the Metropolitan Transit Authority to abandon plans to erect a high-rise building in the middle of Kew Gardens at the site of the Long Island Rail Road station. KGCA worked with the MTA to have the commercial strip of nineteen stores, many of which lay abandoned as a result of prolonged street and bridge reconstruction along Lefferts Blvd., reconstitute itself as a viable commercial area.