Briarwood
Briarwood is a middle-class neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens.
Briarwood is a middle-class neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens. The neighborhood is roughly bounded by the Van Wyck Expressway to the west, Parsons Boulevard to the east, Union Turnpike to the north, and Hillside Avenue to the south.
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Getting to Briarwood
- Airports
- John F. Kennedy (JFK), 8 km · LaGuardia (LGA), 9 km · Newark Liberty (EWR), 30 km
- Philadelphia → Briarwood142 km · quickest by road, 3h 2m · $14–19
- Hartford → Briarwood151 km · quickest by road, 3h 8m · $14–19
- Albany → Briarwood216 km · quickest by road, 4h 4m · $20–28
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Briarwood
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Briarwood. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThe East River Ferry makes stops in both north and south Williamsburg.
From Wikivoyage: Brooklyn/Williamsburg, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Briarwood
Briarwood is 4 km from Queens, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.