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MARKET EM it i. i The Multiple Listing Service of Long Island, Inc. provided the following information about Queens. Its Web site is www.mlslirealtor.com. Brooklyn sales Information was provided by Individual realtors.

Corner of Lefferts Blvd. and Metropolitan Ave. in Kew Gardens is busy, but not unbearable. Kew ardeins Ml Bife "We just moved here from Lithuania three weeks ago. We like it here.

It's a quiet neighborhood, nice and green. Also, it's not far from thing the buses and subway and everything else. Oalia Stoniene "I've 27 been Jewish quite still charm, of a European BROOKLYN East Flat bush E. 51st one-family, semi-attached brick; five bedrooms, three baths, one-car garage. Taxes: $1,271.

Last listed price: $179,000. Sale price: $170,000. Realtor: ERA Personal Real Estate Consultants. Flatlands E. 37th one-family, semi-attached brick; five bedrooms, three baths, one-car garage.

Taxes: 1,964. Last listed price: $249,000. Sale price: $240,000. Realtor: ERA Personal Real Estate Consultants. Kensington E.

Eighth one-family detached frame house, four bedrooms, two baths, tWKar garage. Taxes: $.1,385. Last listed price: $289,000. Sale price: $280,000. Realtor: ERA Personal Real Estate Consultants.

Old Mill Basin Avenue two-family semi-detached brick, five bedrooms, two baths, one-car garage. Taxes: $1,683. Last listed price: $189,000. Sale price: $189,000. Realtor: ERA Personal Real Estate Consultants.

Sheepshead Bay Manhattan Court, two-family attached brick; three bedrooms, two baths, one-car garage. Taxes: $1,920. Last listed price: $255,000. Sale price: $245,000. Realtor: ERA Personal Real Estate Consultants.

QUEENS Auburndale 194th one-family detached brickstone Tudor, six bedrooms, lVa baths, two-car garage. Taxes: $2,135. Last listed price: $418,000. Sale price: $385,000. Realtor: First Choice Real Estate Inc.

Bayside Cloverdale one-bedroom, one-bath co-op. Taxes: $0. Last listed price: $43,000. Sale price: $42,000. Realtor: ERA United Realty.

Bellerose Moline one-family attached brick townhouse; two bedrooms, one bath, one-car garage. Taxes: $1,100. Last listed price: $169,000. Sale price: $165,000. Realtor: Better Lifestyles Cross Island.

Corona 103rd one-family detached aluminumframe Colonial, two bedrooms, l'a baths. Taxes: $872. Last listed price: $145,000. Sale price: $106,000. Realtor: Century 21 Veta Brome.

Floral Park 262nd one-family detached bricksiding Cape, four bedrooms, one bath. Taxes: $1,800. Last listed price: $259,000. Sale price: $247,000. Realtor: U.S.

1 Adams Real Estate Corp. Forest Hills Union Turnpike, one-bedroom, one-bath co-op. Taxes: $0. Last listed price: $69,000. Sale price: $65,000.

Realtor: REMAX Forest Hills Realty. Glendale 71st two-family attached brick Colonial; five bedrooms, two baths. Taxes: $1,200. Last listed price: $225,000. Sale price: $220,000.

Realtor: RE MAX Forest Hills Realty. Kew Gardens Hills 79th two-bedroom, one-bath co-op. Taxes: $0. Last listed price: $48,900. Sale price: $45,000.

Realtor: Eisenoff Realty Inc. Laurelton 223rd one-family detached brick ranch; two bedrooms, two baths, one-car garage. Taxes: $1,095. Last listed price: $159,999. Sale price: $154,000.

Realtor: TBS Realty Corp. St. Albans 116th one-family detached brick Colonial; four bedrooms, two baths, two-car garage. Taxes: $1,128. Last listed price: $169,999.

Sale price: $171,000. Realtor: ERA Top Service Realty Inc. Woodhaven Woodhaven two-bedroom, one-bath detached co-op. Taxes: $0. Last listed price: $52,500.

Sale price: $45,000. Realtor: Fleet Street Properties Ltd. Woodside 41st Drive, one-family attached frame dwelling, four bedrooms, three baths. Taxes: SNA. Last listed price: $209,000.

Sale price: $180,000. Realtor: REMAX Today. been here for years. There's an influx of families, and a few Russians, too. It has a kind of the character small town, a town." Frank Font! BtU.

TURNBUU. DAILY NEWS "We've been here 10 years. It's a pretty good neighborhood. It has a real sense of community. There's a whole bunch of different nationalities.

It's safe. But we get parking tickets all the time. That's the tradeoff." Stuart Harrow gone a growth spurt in the years since. There has been a large influx of Eastern Europeans from Russia, the Czech Republic and the Baltic nations. Also, Guyanese and Asian Indians have been moving into the neighborhood from Richmond Hill.

HOUSING: Single-family private dwellings outnumber multiple-dwelling structures by roughly 3 to 1. SHOPPING: Lefferts with many small mom-and-pop shops, is the main shopping strip. TRANSPORTATION: Home of the "Kew Gardens Interchange" of Grand Central and Jackie -Robinson (formerly Interbor-ough) Parkways, and the Van Wyck Expressway, Kew Gardens is a hub for both automobile and mass-transit travel. Queens and Lefferts Blvds. and Metropolitan and Myrtle Aves.

are major thoroughfares. The and trains and several bus lines provide subway and surface transit. Population boost from immigrants NEIGHBORHOOD: Kew Gardens is a community in central Queens. It is bounded on the north by Queens on the east by 127th on the south by Myrtle Ave. and on the west by Union Turnpike.

It includes the 11424 and 11415 zip codes. Kew Gardens, along with its southerly neighbors Richmond Hill, Woodhaven and Ozone Park, makes up Community Board 9. The district office is located in Borough Hall, at 120-55 Queens Kew Gardens. The board's phone number is (718) 286-2686. HISTORY: In 1868, much of the hilly land that makes up modern-day Kew Gardens was purchased by Albon Man, who developed Richmond Hill to the south.

Maple Grove Cemetery was opened in 1875, and a railroad station, named Hopedale after Hopedale Hall, a hotel of that time, was constructed for the convenience of mourners. CRIME STATISTICS: Kew Gardens lies within the confines of the 102nd Precinct. Crimes precinctwide from the beginning of this year through Sept. 12 compared with the same period in 1998 are: murder five this year versus two last year, up 150; rape 19 this year, unchanged from last year; robbery 449 this year against 447 last year, up 0.4; felony assault 259 this year compared with 310 last year, down 16.4; burglary 647 this year opposed to 683 last year, down 5.2; grand larceny 352 this year against 391 last year, down 10; auto theft 656 this year versus 936 last 5 year, down 30. Total crimes were 2,387 this year as opposed to 2,788 for the same period last year, an overall drop of 14.3.

SCHOOLS: Kew Gardens is within the boundaries of Community School District 28, which also takes in Rego Park, Forest Hills, Briarwood and Jamaica. The latest statewide academic test scores for District 28 showed 51 of students reading at or above grade level and 55.7 doing math at or above grade level. Kew Gardens has one elementary school, Public School 99. Intermediate school and high school children are zoned for Russell Sage Junior 190 and Hillcrest High. POPULATION: A large community of Jewish refugees from Germany moved into Kew Gardens during the pre-World War II years.

The last census set the population at roughly 20,000, but the neighborhood has under CD 0).