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  Pictures dated 1911 and 2001
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The New Station at Kew
As part of its deal for a direct right of way, the Long Island Railroad opened a new station on September 8, 1910 called "Kew" - a name one newspaper ridiculed. Using the new East River tunnels, trains could reach Penn Station in only 15 minutes. Residential development of the area became inevitable. In 1912, Kew separated from Richmond Hill and was renamed Kew "Gardens", inspired in part by its namesake in England and in part by neighboring Forest Hills Gardens.
Sources:
- Barry Lewis, Kew Gardens: Urban Village in the Big City, pp. 14 - 16, 31, 44 (Kew Gardens Council on Recreation and the Arts 1999)
- Carl Ballenas and Nancy Cataldi, Images of America - Richmond Hill, p. 44 (Arcadia Publ. 2002)
- Circa 1907 picture from the Man Family Archives