The Kew Bolmer is an apartment building located in Kew Gardens, Queens. Kew Gardens is a neighborhood in central Queens bounded to the north and east by the Jackie Robinson Parkway (formerly Interborough Parkway), the Van Wyck Expressway, and Queens Boulevard, also to the east by 127th Street, to the south by 85th Avenue, and to the west by Babbage Street and... This article is about the New York City borough. ...

Two brothers, Aldrick Man and Albon Man Jr., decided to lay out a new community in the viscinity of an old golf course in Queens, and first called it Kew but then changed it to Kew Gardens, after the well-known botanical gardens in England. Soon the first apartment building in Kew Gardens was created, the Kew Bolmer. It is located at 80-45 Kew Gardens Road. The Kew Bolmer was erected in 1915, and still stands today, at the intersection of Kew Gardens Road, and Queens Boulevard. For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... A view down Queens Boulevard in Forest Hills. ...

The Kew Bolmer, as it looks today, from Queens Boulevard.

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See Also

OldKewGardens.com Full of pictures of Kew Gardens and the Kew Bolmer.