Lindenwood, Queens

Lindenwood is a section of Queens that is often considered part of Howard Beach, Queens, New York. This middle-class area was developed in the 1950s and 1960s and sits on landfill. The neighborhood is part of Queens Community Board 10.

Lindenwood is made up primarily of six-story, orange or red brick apartment buildings, constructed in the early to mid-1960s, smaller co-op "garden-apartments" (4-unit red-brick buildings) constructed in the 1950s and seen from the Belt Parkway, and two-family homes (some attached) built in the 1960s. The "hi-rise" apartment buildings are red-brick co-ops or orange-brick condominiums. Heritage House East and West (84-29 and 84-39 153rd Avenue) were among the first condominium apartment buildings in New York State. Additional townhouses near the Brooklyn border were built in the 1970s and 90s. The hi-rises used to be family friendly, but many of their playgrounds have been converted into sitting areas and no longer even allow dogs.

In the middle of the neighborhood is Elementary School P.S. 232, built in the early 1960s (and now known as the Walter Ward school, named after the neighborhood's late longtime NYC Councilman) and the Lindenwood Shopping Center, which consists of a supermarket and about 20 stores. In the early 1970s, a supermarket called the Village was built behind the shopping center. After failing, the building became a mall, flea market, bingo hall and private school before finally becoming a walk-in medical center. There is also a small strip mall on Linden Boulevard, adjacent to the Lindenwood Diner.

Lindenwood has Saint Helens Church and a Jewish center, Temple Judea, on 153rd Avenue and 80th Street. The temple's building was converted into apartments when the temple merged with the then Howard Beach Jewish Center in Rockwood Park. The neighborhood also used to have two pool clubs, one on 88th Street and 151st Avenue that became walk-up apartments in the early 70s and the other on 83rd Street across from PS 232 that was developed into townhouses in 1980, adjacent to a branch of Queens County Savings Bank (formerly Columbia Savings Bank). There also used to be a tennis "bubble" on 153rd Ave and 79th Street that was developed around 1980.

Lindenwood is mostly made up of Jewish, Italian and Irish populations, with a small Hispanic population. It contrasts with Rockwood Park, which is primarily filled with single-family houses and is seen as more upscale.