⁴ᴷ⁶⁰ Walking NYC : Flushing Meadows–Corona Park, Queens
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Flushing Meadows–Corona Park, often referred to as Flushing Meadows Park, or simply Flushing Meadows, is a public park in the northern part of Queens, New York City. It contains the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, the current venue for the US Open tennis tournament; Citi Field, the home of the New York Mets baseball team; the New York Hall of Science; the Queens Museum of Art; the Queens Theatre in the Park; the Queens Zoo; and the New York State Pavilion. It formerly contained Shea Stadium, demolished in 2009.
Flushing Meadows–Corona Park was created as the site of the 1939/1940 New York World's Fair and also hosted the 1964/1965 New York World's Fair. The park is bounded by I-678 (Van Wyck Expressway) on the east, Grand Central Parkway on the west, Flushing Bay on the north, and Union Turnpike on the south. Flushing Meadows–Corona Park is the fourth-largest public park in New York City, with a total area of 897 acres (363 ha). Until the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation (NYC Parks) conducted a survey of New York City park areas in 2013, the park was believed to be 1,255 acres (508 ha) in size.
It is owned and maintained by NYC Parks. Private, non-profit groups such as the Flushing Meadows–Corona Park Conservancy and the Alliance for Flushing Meadows–Corona Park provide additional funds, services, and support. The park is at the eastern edge of the area encompassed by Queens Community Board 4.
Filmed January 27, 2019
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3:45 - 111th Street & 49th Avenue
4:50 - Flushing Meadows-Corona Park Entrance at 111th Street & 49th Avenue
7:30 - Terrace on the Park
10:30 - Queens Zoo
11:25 - Fantasy Forest Amusement Park & Carousel
16:06 - World's Fair Observations Towers, New York State Pavilion, Queens Theatre
18:03 - Westinghouse Time Capsules
19:05 - Skate Park
20:50 - Inside Look of New York State Pavilion
23:55 - The Unisphere
25:33 - The Unisphere Informational Plaque
26:00 - Queens Museum (New York City Building)
29:05 - Arthur Ashe Stadium
34:00 - Apollo Statue
35:40 - Soccer (Football) Fields
38:28 - Pool of Industry with Seagulls
46:25 - Passerelle Pedestrian Bridge
48:25 - Long Island Railroad Mets-Willets Point Station
49:44 - MTA Corona Maintenance Shop (Left Side) & MTA New York City Transit Casey Stengel Bus Depot (Right Side)
52:31 - 7 Train Mets-Willets Point Station
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US Open Arthur Ashe Corona Park Flushing Meadows New York, USA
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Arthur Ashe Stadium is a tennis stadium at Flushing Meadows–Corona Park in Queens, New York City. Part of the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, it is the main stadium of the US Open tennis tournament, and the largest tennis stadium in the world, with a capacity of 23,771
Flushing Meadows–Corona Park, often referred to as Flushing Meadows Park, s a public park in the northern part of Queens, New York City. It was created as the site of the 1939 New York World's Fair.
Its attractions include the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, the current venue for the US Open tennis tournament; Citi Field, the home of the New York Mets baseball team; the New York Hall of Science; the Queens Museum of Art; the Queens Theatre in the Park; the Queens Zoo; the Unisphere; and the New York State Pavilion. It formerly contained Shea Stadium, demolished in 2009.
The Grandstand is a tennis court at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, used as a show court for the US Open. The court made its debut on August 29, 2016, the first day of the 2016 US Open. With a seating capacity of 8,125.
This is a circular stadium, with spaceship-like qualities, a canopy overhang and geometric shapes jutting from it on the outside.
While we continue walking, just next to the Grandstand tennis court, we start seeing the biggest tennis stadium of the world!
But before have a closer view of the stadium, we will walk south towards Avenue of the states, heading The Queens Museum.
The Queens Museum, formerly the Queens Museum of Art, is an art museum and educational center, located in Flushing Meadows–Corona Park in the borough of Queens in New York City.
The museum was founded in 1972, and has among its permanent exhibitions, the Panorama of the City of New York, a room-sized scale model of the five boroughs originally built for the 1964 New York World's Fair.
The museum embarked on a $69 million expansion project in 2009, which was originally slated to be completed in October 2013.
While we left the Queens museum, we are moving left towards the Unisphere, a spherical stainless steel representation of the Earth.
The sphere, which measures 140 feet (43 m) high and 120 feet (37 m) in diameter. It was commissioned as part of the 1964 Fair. The Unisphere is one of the borough's most iconic and enduring symbols.
The Unisphere has been used as a setting or backdrop for several films and episodes, including the movie Men in Black.
Now we are moving right, to our final destination: The biggest tennis stadium of the world!
This is “Freedom of the Human Spirit”, a massive bronze statue depicting a male and a female nude with wild swans soaring skyward.
The Arthur Ashe stadium have seen Roger Federer win five times the US Open and in 2019, two Colombians made history winning for the first time this important Grand Slam!
Congratulations Robert Farah and Juan Sebastián Cabal! You set the path for many other young kids!
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York City, colloquially the Met, is the largest art museum in the United States.
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The National September 11 Memorial & Museum is a memorial and museum in New York City commemorating the September 11, 2001 attacks, which killed 2,977 people, and the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, which killed six.
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The Queens Zoo is an 18-acre zoo located in Flushing Meadows – Corona Park in the New York City borough of Queens.
Address: 53-51 111th St, Corona, NY 11368
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The Queens Museum, formerly the Queens Museum of Art, is an art museum and educational center located in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in the borough of Queens in New York City, United States. The museum is housed in the New York City Building, which was built for the 1939 New York World's Fair, and which then hosted the United Nations General Assembly from 1946 to 1950. The museum itself was founded in 1972, and has among its permanent exhibitions, the Panorama of the City of New York, a room-sized scale model of the five boroughs originally built for the 1964 New York World's Fair, and repeatedly updated since then. It also has a large archive of artifacts from both World's Fairs, a selection of which is on display.
Flushing, Queens
Flushing is a neighborhood in the north-central part of the New York City borough of Queens, in the United States. While much of the neighborhood is residential, Downtown Flushing, centered on the northern end of Main Street, is a large commercial and retail area and is the fourth largest central business district in New York City.
Flushing's diversity is reflected by the numerous ethnic groups that reside there, including people of Asian, Hispanic, Middle Eastern, European, and African American ancestry. It is part of the Fifth Congressional District, which encompasses the entire northeastern shore of Queens County, and extends into neighboring Nassau County. Flushing is served by five railroad stations on the Long Island Rail Road Port Washington Branch, as well as the New York City Subway's IRT Flushing Line, which has its terminus at Main Street. The intersection of Main Street and Roosevelt Avenue is the third busiest intersection in New York City, behind Times and Herald Squares.
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Tourism in New York City serves over 56 million foreign and American tourists each year including day-trippers. Major destinations include the Empire State Building, Ellis Island, Broadway theatre productions, museums such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and other tourist attractions including Central Park, Washington Square Park, Rockefeller Center, Times Square, the Bronx Zoo, Barclays Center, Coney Island, South Street Seaport, New York Botanical Garden, luxury shopping along Fifth and Madison Avenues, and events such as the Tribeca Film Festival, and free performances in Central Park at Summerstage and Delacorte Theater. The Statue of Liberty is a major tourist attraction and one of the most recognizable icons of the United States. Many New York City ethnic enclaves, such as Jackson Heights, Flushing, and Brighton Beach are major shopping destinations for first and second generation Americans up and down the East Coast.
New York City has over 28,000 acres (110 km2) of parkland and 14 linear miles (22 km) of public beaches. Manhattan's Central Park, designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, is the most visited city park in the United States. Prospect Park in Brooklyn, also designed by Olmsted and Vaux, has a 90 acres (36 ha) meadow. Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in Queens, the city's third largest, was the setting for the 1939 World's Fair and 1964 World's Fair.
Queens Museum - New York
The Queens Museum, formerly the Queens Museum of Art, is an art museum and educational center located in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in the borough of Queens in New York City, United States. The museum is housed in the New York City Building that was constructed for the 1939 World's Fair and hosted the United Nations General Assembly 1946-50. Founded in 1972, the museum houses the well known Panorama of the City of New York, a scale model of the five boroughs built for the 1964 New York World's Fair and the Relief Map of the New York City Water Supply System.
Situated in the most diverse county in the United States, the Queens Museum has focused on outreach and access for a wide range of audiences. The museum is known for international contemporary art exhibitions that reflect the hyper-diversity of the borough. The museum's Education Department is the first in America to employ art therapists in a dedicated, fully accessible classroom, while the Public Events department has hired community organizers to work on local improvement initiatives.
Employing a multifaceted strategy of outreach, the Queens Museum is simultaneously a fine arts collecting museum, historical site, community center, and educational classroom.
Unisphere Flushing Meadows Corona Park NYC/ Love travel USA
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The Central Park Zoo is a 6.5-acre zoo located at the southeast corner of Central Park in New York City. It is part of an integrated system of four zoos and one aquarium managed by the Wildlife Conservation Society
Central Park is an urban park in Manhattan, New York City, located between the Upper West Side and the Upper East Side. Central Park is the most visited urban park in the United States, with an estimated 37–38 million visitors annually, and one of the most filmed locations in the world
Little Italy welcomes a heavily tourist crowd to its high concentration of souvenir shops and traditional Italian eateries and bakeries. Tenement buildings, once home to the immigrants who settled the area in the late 1800s, line the narrow streets. Mulberry Street, the main thoroughfare, turns into a pedestrian mall on summer weekends. The area celebrates its heritage each September at the busy San Gennaro festival.
Vibrant Chinatown is a densely populated neighborhood that draws foodies and tourists to its many Chinese and Southeast Asian restaurants for dumplings, pork buns and hand-pulled noodles. The busy sidewalks are packed with souvenir stores, bubble tea shops, and markets selling everything from fresh and dried fish to herbs and spices. Locals hang out in leafy Columbus Park for Tai Chi, chess and mahjong.
New York City comprises 5 boroughs sitting where the Hudson River meets the Atlantic Ocean. At its core is Manhattan, a densely populated borough that’s among the world’s major commercial, financial and cultural centers. Its iconic sites include skyscrapers such as the Empire State Building and sprawling Central Park. Broadway theater is staged in neon-lit Times Square.
Eastern edge of Flushing Meadows--Corona Park to The Unisphere
This video shows the route from the eastern edge of Flushing Meadows-Corona Park to The Unisphere. It was recorded on the morning commute of April 22, 2013. Turn on subtitles for turn-by-turn directions and park information.
Flushing Meadows--Corona Park is the home to the Playground for All Children, the Queens Theatre in the Park, the Queens Museum of Art, the Queens Wildlife Center, and the New York Hall of Science.
0:00:00 Begin on the sidwalk on the west side of the intersection of College Point Blvd. and Booth Memorial Ave.
0:00:15 Ride north on the sidewalk (mind the poor paving) and make the first left into the park, onto Fowler Path.
0:00:50 Make a slight left onto Avenue of Discovery 0.1 mi. The intersection ahead has car traffic without a stop sign so be careful.
0:01:41 Make a right onto Promenade of Industry (around Industry Pond) 0.1 mi
0:02:40 Turn right onto Herbert Hoover Promenade 0.2 mi
0:03:22 Make a slight turn around Astronaut Court and continue toward The Unisphere 0.2 mi
Flushing Meadows-Corona Park is currently the second largest park in New York (only behind Pelham Bay Park), though much of the usable land has been given to the MTA, private sport areanas, and other institutions. In the 1920's this land was the Corona Ash Dumps (coal-furnaces being the primary source of heat in houses) and was described as a valley of ashes in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. The area was cleared for the 1939/1940 World's Fair, with much of the refuse being used as fill for the construction of the Van Wyck Expressway, Interboro Parkway and Long Island Expressway.
The Playground for All Children (at the south-west of the Unisphere) was the first playground constructed in the United States for disabled and able-bodied children. City Agencies and advocacy groups for the disabled worked together to design a space to encourage social, cognitive, sensory and motor activity for children ages 3 to 12. The Gardenature and Nature Crafts Program teach children simple methods of conservation, the Arts and Crafts Program is designed to enhance self-expression and creativity, and The Sensitization Program helps able-bodied children better understand disabilities.
The Queens Theatre in the Park was originally the Theaterama during its use in the 1964 World's Fair. The space included observation towers and the Tent of Tomorrow, an open-air pavilion. It was originally decorated with art from artists including Andy Warhol and Robert Indiana. Audiences watched a 360 degree film about New York State history in a cycloramic (circular) room. The Cultural Institutions Group (nonprofit operators of the theater since 1997) focuses on productions that reflect the diverse nature of Queens, including a Latin American festival. The Queens Theatre hosts a variety of performance types, from Broadway revivals and new productions, to film festivals, performance art showcases, concerts and children's events.
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Explore New York City's five boroughs and visit the Big Apple's famous attractions: Empire State Building, Times Square, Broadway, Central Park, Ellis Island, Statue of Liberty, Harlem, Carnegie Hall, Yankee Stadium, Coney Island, Shea Stadium, Brooklyn Bridge, Staten Island Ferry, Bronx Zoo, St. Patrick's Cathedral, Columbia University, NYU, Fordham, Yeshiva University, Julliard School, Flatiron Building, National Tennis Center, 42nd Street, Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, Wall Street Stock Exchange, Federal Hall, Grant's Tomb, Chrysler Building, NYC Opera, Metropolitan Opera, American Ballet Theatre, NYC Ballet, New York Philharmonic, Lincoln Center, Freedom Tower, National September 11 Memorial & Museum, Greenwich Village, NYC Public Library Historical Society, TriBeCa, Soho, Newtown Creek, Brooklyn Museum/Academy of Music/Botanical Gardens, Aqueduct Racetrack, United Nations, Apollo Theater, Museum of the City of New York, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Williamsburgh, Crown Heights, Borough Park, Hudson River, East River, Long Island Sound, Astoria, Woodside, Forest Hills, Flushing, Elmhurst, Calvary Cemetery, 1939/1964 World's Fair, New York Harbor Upper Bay Lower Bay, Queen Catherine & King Charles II, NYC Islands: Governors Randalls Wards Roosevelt U Thant, Marble Hill, NYC Subway/Harbor, LaGuardia & JFK Airports, etc. In this Edition of Timeline: Discover NEW YORK CITY and it's five boroughs: Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn, the Bronx and Staten Island. Timeline also presents a simple map of the metropolis that is easy to comprehend, and fun to replicate for educational school projects.
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Central Park is a large public park in Manhattan, New York City. The area is 3.41 km² with rectangular shape (4 km long, 800 m wide). Each year, the park is visited by around 25 million people, and it is also the most visited park in the United States.
Central Park is one of the most famous parks in the world, because this park is often used as the location of films and material coverage on television. The management is a non-profit private organization Central Park Conservancy contracted by the Department of Parks and Recreation of New York City.
On the north side, Central Park is bordered by West 110th Street (more commonly known as Central Park North), on the western side of Central Park West, on the south side with West 59th Street (Central Park South), and on the east side with Fifth Avenue. The road on the east side of the park is never referred to as Central Park East, but rather Fifth Avenue. Around the park there are luxurious buildings and is an area with high land prices.
The park was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux. Both are also known as the designers of Prospect Park in nearby Brooklyn. Though natural, the landscape of Central Park is entirely the result of human intervention. Inside the park are artificial lakes and ponds, walkways, two ice skating rinks, wildlife reserves, lawns and playgrounds for children. Central Park is often visited by migratory birds to become a favorite place for bird watchers. The overall length of the roads within the park is 10 km. Visitors crowded jogging, cycling, or skate, especially on weekends or since 19:00 after motor vehicles are banned.
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SUBSCRIBE: - The Mall, Central Park, New York City. Vic Stefanu, vstefanu@yahoo.com. New York City comprises 5 boroughs sitting where the Hudson River meets the Atlantic Ocean. At its core is Manhattan, a densely populated borough that’s among the world’s major commercial, financial and cultural centers. Its iconic sites include skyscrapers such as the Empire State Building and sprawling Central Park. Broadway theater is staged in neon-lit Times Square.
New York City comprises 5 boroughs sitting where the Hudson River meets the Atlantic Ocean. At its core is Manhattan, a densely populated borough that’s among the world’s major commercial, financial and cultural centers. Its iconic sites include skyscrapers such as the Empire State Building and sprawling Central Park. Broadway theater is staged in neon-lit Times Square.
The U.S. is a country of 50 states covering a vast swath of North America, with Alaska in the northwest and Hawaii extending the nation’s presence into the Pacific Ocean. Major Atlantic Coast cities are New York, a global finance and culture center, and capital Washington, DC. Midwestern metropolis Chicago is known for influential architecture and on the west coast, Los Angeles' Hollywood is famed for filmmaking.
⁴ᴷ Exploring Abandoned NYC LIRR Rockaway Beach Branch near Forest Park, Queens
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The Rockaway Beach Branch was a rail line owned and operated by the Long Island Rail Road in Queens, New York City, United States. The line left the Main Line at Whitepot Junction in Rego Park heading south via Ozone Park and across Jamaica Bay to Hammels in the Rockaways, turning west there to a terminal at Rockaway Park. Along the way it connected with the Montauk Branch near Glendale, the Atlantic Branch near Woodhaven, and the Far Rockaway Branch at Hammels.
After a 1950 fire, the Jamaica Bay bridge was closed and the line south of Ozone Park sold to the city, which rehabilitated the portion south of Liberty Avenue and connected it to the New York City Subway system as the IND Rockaway Line. The portion north of the subway connection was closed in 1962, and three proposals exist for the reuse of the line.
Legacy and planned restoration
The city never filed to abandon the isolated section of double trackage between Elmhurst and Ozone Park, due to the intended connection to the IND Queens Boulevard Line subway. This had been proposed under the IND Second System and later by Robert Moses, with an existing provision at the 63rd Drive subway station for a future connection to Whitepot Junction. An additional plan proposed a connection to the BMT Jamaica Line around the Brooklyn Manor station. However, in October 1955 shortly after LIRR service on the Queens portion of the Far Rockaway Branch ended, it was decided to terminate subway service at Liberty Avenue, with only the connection to the Fulton Street El completed. The right-of-way was sold to the City of New York and is now in most sections administered by the New York City Department of Citywide Administrative Services (DCAS), except for a 7 acres (2.8 ha) section in Forest Park that has been mapped as parkland. The line remains officially out of service and is known by locals as the forgotten spur, a name which dates back to the mid-1950s when the subway plans for the spur were dropped. Much of the original infrastructure has either been removed, damaged, rotted or undermined, though some rails, wooden ties, electrical towers and even de-electrified third rails can still be found in some sections, with much of it dating from 1908 or earlier, when the line was originally electrified. The failure to reactivate the northern portion of the line had been attributed to the potential high costs of connecting it to the Queens Boulevard Line, and capacity issues on the line which persist to day, making the Fulton line connection more feasible.
The line is a regular haunt for hikers, homeless, and such. The right-of-way can be easily be seen, especially along the abandoned elevated embankment in Woodhaven and Ozone Park. With exception to areas around the former junction with the Montauk Branch that have been redeveloped, and the Logan Bus Company lot, the line in its entirety is owned by the City of New York. The line is encroached by a number of adjacent property owners, which is an obstacle for anything to be done with the right-of-way.
There are proposals for rail service and a rail trail on this right-of-way. One proposal juxtaposes both plans.