Oakland Gardens

County: Queens

The centerpiece of Oakland Gardens is the campus of Queensborough Community College. This area within the postal designation of Bayside provides a rich quality of life, enhanced by the significant cultural assets of the college. Among the highlights are several outstanding performing arts series, visual art displays, and the Holocaust Research Center. The neighborhood grew from a farm called "the Oaks" that later became a golf course and was eventually developed into residential housing and the college campus. Homes in Oakland Gardens tend to be low-rise garden apartment buildings that are interspersed by single-family homes and two-family models along tree-shaded streets.