Crew Gardens

Where do the flights crews go, and what do they do, in between flights? 

Where do they live? 

When your job requires you to fly all over the country, and all over the world, day in day out, jumping from time city to city, country to country, time zone to time zone -- what kind of life do you have?

It's a wild and unique life, as you might imagine. So it's probably not a surprise that people who work on flight crews form tight bonds and have developed a community of literal fellow travelers. 

In NYC, between flights, many pilots and flight attendants live in the Kew Gardens section of Queens. Many of them share apartments and homes, sometimes just renting rooms full of bunk beds. And, as you might imagine, they party together, very often at bars that have been serving flight crews for decades.

Hence Kew Gardens is known in the airline industry as "Crew Gardens."

NYC has two major airports so there's a huge number of airline workers who live and work here and live in close proximity. It's not surprising that they have their community here. It's yet another of those little worlds within the giant world of NYC.