Parkway Village

Sub-neighborhood in Kew Gardens Hills · Queens

Parkway Village is a 35-acre garden apartment complex of 675 units in the Briarwood section of Queens, built in 1947 in a neo-Georgian style to house United Nations employees and delegates and notable from its earliest days for being a deliberately integrated community at a time when segregation was still the norm in American housing. Its alumni include Nobel Peace Prize winner Ralph Bunche, NAACP leader Roy Wilkins, and feminist author Betty Friedan, and it converted to a cooperative in 1983 while retaining its distinctive green campus character.

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