Flushing Meadows–Corona Park

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Tue Jun 22 2010

RECOMMENDED: 50 best New York attractions

Give the city’s second-biggest park a day and it’ll show you the world: Its most enduring icon is the Unisphere, the mammoth steel globe created for the 1964 World’s Fair. But there’s also first-rate culture and sports at the New York Hall of Science, Arthur Ashe Stadium and Citi Field (depending on how the Mets are doing). The rolling green fields also encompass a zoo, a boating lake, a skate park, a barbecue area, playfields, and a $66 million aquatic and hockey center. Last summer, wetland plants such as swamp azalea and swamp milkweed were added to better handle the park’s water runoff, improving the catch-and-release fishing in Meadow Lake.

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Address:
Flushing Meadows–Corona Park 111th St to Van Wyck Expwy
Flushing
Queens

Cross Street:
between Flushing Bay and Grand Central Pkwy
Venue phone:
718-760-6565
Venue website:
nycgovparks.org/parks/fmcp/
Transport:
Subway: 7 to Mets–Willets Pt
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1. Flushing Meadows–Corona Park
  - 111th St to Van Wyck Expwy
    Flushing
    Queens
  - 718-760-6565
  - nycgovparks.org/parks/fmcp/
  - 40.749824,-73.797634

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Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival

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This annual sporting event celebrates the fifth moon (or fifth month) of the lunar calendar. Wee ones will get a kick out of the colorful, dragon-shaped vessels racing across Meadow Lake, their oarsmen rowing to the beat of Chinese drums. In addition...