Fresh Meadows-Utopia offers a suburban residential character with detached homes and good school districts. Proximity to parks and shopping centers serves families well.
Fresh Meadows-Utopia offers a suburban residential character with detached homes and good school districts. Proximity to parks and shopping centers serves families well.
Did you know?
Fresh Meadows was entirely planned and built by the New York Life Insurance Company in the late 1940s as a self-contained garden community.
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Housing cost
$1,228 / sq ft
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Fresh Meadows-Utopia offers a tight cluster of three playgrounds — Farm Playground, Holy Cow Playground, and Utopia Playground — that serve the neighborhood's families without requiring much travel. They're the kind of spots where you end up at the closest one most days, each with solid equipment that holds up to regular use. Not a destination for park-seekers from outside the area, but reliable local options that families count on.
Schools & early education
Fresh Meadows-Utopia delivers a practical mix of public and private schooling. The neighborhood's public schools include zoned elementary options like P.S. 173 Fresh Meadows and P.S. 026 Rufus King, with J.H.S. 216 George J. Ryan covering middle school. Private families often look to St. Francis Preparatory School on Francis Lewis Boulevard. A handful of early childhood centers — Little Meadows among them — round out the options for pre-K families.
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Frequently Asked Questions
- Is Fresh Meadows-Utopia a good neighborhood for families?
- Fresh Meadows-Utopia scores 59/100 for families on Motley — near the middle of the pack citywide. The Family Fit score blends safety, schools, parks, cost of living, and community.
- Is Fresh Meadows-Utopia safe?
- Fresh Meadows-Utopia scores 66/100 on safety — ahead of most NYC neighborhoods. We build the score from NYPD complaint data, normalized by population.
- How are the schools in Fresh Meadows-Utopia?
- Fresh Meadows-Utopia has 6 schools mapped inside its boundary and scores 62/100 for schools — ahead of most NYC neighborhoods.
- Is Fresh Meadows-Utopia affordable?
- Fresh Meadows-Utopia scores 61/100 for affordability on Motley — more affordable than most NYC neighborhoods.
- Which borough is Fresh Meadows-Utopia in?
- Fresh Meadows-Utopia is a neighborhood in Queens, New York City.
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