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!
Unisphere Flushing Meadows Corona Park NYC/ Love travel USA
Unisphere Flushing Meadows Corona Park NYC/ Love travel USA
Flushing Meadows New York
11 października 2014. Korty tenisowe Flushing Meadows, NY. Jeden z najsłynniejszych obiektów tego typu na świecie. Tu rozgrywane są zawody tenisowe Wielkiego Szlema US Open.
Modern Ruin: The New York State Pavilion
Originally built and used as a cultural space for the 1964/65 World’s Fair, the New York State Pavilion in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in Queens is currently abandoned. With a hope to change this, Matthew Silva and Salmaan Khan co-founded People for the Pavilion, a nonprofit advocacy organization dedicated to developing a vibrant community around the Pavilion, to raise awareness about the structure. Silva and Khan tell their story and showcase the trailer to Silva’s 2015 documentary, Modern Ruin.
Salmaan Khan
Co-Founder, People for the Pavilion
Matthew Silva
Co-Founder, People for the Pavilion
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.
It's My Park: New York State Pavilion (1964 World's Fair)
Governor Nelson Rockefeller commissioned architect Philip Johnson to design the New York State Pavilion for the 1964 World's Fair in Flushing Meadows Corona Park. One section of the tripartite structure is now home to the Queens Theater in the Park.
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Flushing Meadows -Corona Park the 4-th largest park in NYC/Love Travel USA
Flushing Meadows -Corona Park the 4-th largest park in NYC/Love Travel USA
51st street and 39th Ave. to Skillman Ave. and Queens Blvd.
51st street and 39th Ave. to Skillman Ave. and Queens Blvd. on morning commute 4/15/2013. Many of the signs are behind trees, so be careful or you might miss a turn off. Turn on Closed Captioning for turn-by-turn directions.
Begin by cycling west on 39th Avenue
0:00:32 Turn left onto 48th St/Gosman Ave. 0.2 mi
0:00:50 To your right are Sunnyside Gardens, which was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. New York City Housing Corporation constructed it from 1924 to 1929 as one of the first superblock model in the United States. The Sunnyside Gardens brick residences have front and rear gardens, but also a shared common court (with Gramercy, one of only two private parks in New York City). This model was developed to increase density while providing open garden space.
0:01:32 Turn right onto Skillman Ave 1.0 mi
0:03:18 To your right is Torsney Playground, which was named in honor of George F. Torsney (1896-1942), a New York State Assembly member from 1932 until his death. As Queens grew in the 1930's, he fought for greater representation and was a member of New York World's Fair Commission in 1939. Within the Torsney Playground is the Lou Lodati Playground. Nickname Mayor of Sunnyside, Lou Lodati (1908-1996) was dedicated to the community, operated Cassel's Lounge where the homeless could receive meals.
RKO Keiths Interior, Flushing N.Y.
My slideshow and interior tour of the RKO Keiths theater building in downtown Flushing, New York. Please note that I was born after the Keiths closed and was not familiar at all with the interior when I was inside.
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The 1965 New York World's Fair
From my personal film archives is a filmed record of one of my visits to the New York World's Fair.
The 1964-65 New York World's Fair was the second World's Fair to be held at Flushing Meadows Park in New York in the 20th century. It opened on April 21, 1964 for two six-month seasons concluding on October 21, 1965.
It was the largest World's Fair ever to be held in the United States occupying nearly a square mile of land. Truly a Universal and International class exposition, it was not sanctioned by the Bureau of International Expositions and is often overlooked by historians because it was not an official World's Fair. This lack of BIE endorsement meant that many large European nations chose not to participate in the Fair. Most international exhibits were sponsored by tourism and industrial concerns and not officially sanctioned by their governments.
The Fair is now a distant memory for most who were visitors. Those who were children at the time of the Fair are nearing retirement today. After years of neglect, the Fair's legacy structures at Flushing Meadows-Corona Park are being refurbished. New York, in recent years, has begun to realize how important that Fair was to our country's and their city's history and how much it represented an era to millions of Americans. It was a time when the possibilities of the future looked so bright and seemed to be just around the corner.
Filmed: August 1965
HISTORICAL PLACES OF NEW YORK STATE,U S A IN GOOGLE EARTH PART TWO ( 2/3 )
HISTORICAL PLACES OF NEW YORK STATE,U S A PART TWO (2/3)
1. CASTLE CLINTON,NEW YORK CITY 40°42'12.43N 74° 1'0.48W
2. OUR LADY OF VICTORY BASILICA,BUFFALO 42°49'31.19N 78°49'25.33W
3. INTREPID SEA AIR & SPACE MUSEUM,NEW YORK CITY 40°45'52.85N 74° 0'4.04W
4. ST.JOHN'S CHURCH,UTICA 43° 6'3.74N 75°13'38.34W
5. CASTLE SCHUYLER,BRONX 40°48'18.69N 73°47'29.09W
6. BOLDT CASTLE,ALEXANDRIA BAY 44°20'40.56N 75°55'20.96W
7. MEMORIAL ARCH,BROOKLYN 40°40'22.95N 73°58'11.64W
8. ST.JOSEPH CATHEDRAL,BUFFALO 42°52'57.65N 78°52'41.55W
9. MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY,NEW YORK CITY 40°46'52.88N 73°58'26.84W
10. BUFFALO CITY HALL 42°53'11.41N 78°52'44.91W
11. ST.JOSEPH'S CATHEDRAL,BROOKLYN 40°40'49.10N 73°57'59.57W
12. NOTT MEMORIAL,SCHENECTADY 42°49'2.65N 73°55'47.63W
13. CATHEDRAL,GARDEN CITY 40°43'16.33N 73°38'31.55W
14. MIDDLE FALLS,LETCHWORTH STATE PARK 42°34'59.84N 78° 2'33.48W
15. CLOISTERS,NEW YORK CITY 40°51'53.77N 73°55'53.93W
16. FORT JOHNSON(1749),FORT JOHNSON,NY 42°57'25.96N 74°14'25.97W
17. OBLISK,CASTILE 42°35'16.58N 78° 2'16.92W
18. ST.PAUL'S CATHEDRAL,SYRACUSE 43° 2'54.39N 76° 8'58.71W
19. SOLOMON R.GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM,NEW YORK CITY 40°46'58.85N 73°57'31.97W
20. ROMAN CATHOLIC CATHEDRAL,ALBANY 42°38'51.48N 73°45'35.34W
21. FLUSHING MEADOWS,CORONA PARK 40°44'47.01N 73°50'42.06W
22. COHOES FALLS,COHOES 42°47'16.13N 73°42'33.25W
EP. #62 Globe Trotting in New York (part 1 of 3)
for Full Episode - Visiting the Unisphere among the architectural relics left behind from the hey day of New York's World Fair in 1962 in Queens...then off on a drive through Harlem to Columbus Circle where sits another famous Unisphere inspired Globe.
Claire Shulman Builds The Flushing Meadows Corona Park Aquatic Center
Former Queens Borough President Claire Shulman describes how she used $8 million from the United States Tennis Association and a birthday present from Mayor Giuliani to build a state of the art and incredibly popular swimming pool and ice skating rink in Flushing Meadows Corona Park.
- Edited by Joshua Whitaker
Flushing Meadows Park - New York State Pavilion and the Observation Towers
This 240-Year Old Time Capsule Was FINALLY Opened!
Did you know This 240-Year Old Time Capsule Was FINALLY Opened!? From some of the oldest capsule findings to time-capsules that are still supposed to be closed for thousands of years, this top 10 list of mysterious time capsules will amaze you!
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8. Hamilton College Time Capsule
In July 2018, students and staff at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York gathered for the public opening of a time capsule that had recently been discovered on accident. The time capsule was buried by the class of 1890 and remained undisturbed until 128 years later, when a road crew found it while doing some construction work on campus.
7. America’s Oldest Capsule
A handful of historians received the opportunity of a lifetime in early 2015, after they opened a time capsule from 240 years ago!! America’s oldest time capsule was rediscovered by workers repairing a water leak in the Massachusetts State House in Boston.
6. Lion’s Head Time Capsule
In September 2014, just a few months before America’s oldest time capsule was found, the Massachusetts State House in Boston was the site of another exciting discovery. A golden lion statue atop the building contained the 113-year-old contents of yet another time capsule.
5. The 1876 Century Safe
In 1876, a Civil War widow and New York magazine publisher named Anna Deihm attempted to gift a large iron safe to Congress. Within it were several pieces of Americana that she had collected during the Centennial International Exhibition of 1876. The event marked the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence and was held in Philadelphia.
4. Martin Luther King Jr. Time Capsule
In 1988, a time capsule containing several possessions of civil rights activist Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was lowered into the ground beneath Freedom Plaza on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, DC. The capsule was placed in memory of King’s 1963 “I Have A Dream” speech, at the location where the historic oration occurred. In fact, the formerly-named Western Plaza was renamed Freedom Plaza following King’s speech.
3. Juneau Time Capsule
Twenty-five years ago, in August 1994, a nine-by-six foot janitor’s closet at the Hurff Ackerman Saunders Federal Building in Juneau, Alaska was converted into a time capsule, sealed off, and fitted with a plate glass observation window.
2. Crypt Of Civilization
Underneath Oglethorpe University in the Metro Atlanta suburb of Brookhaven, Georgia, there’s an airtight chamber that is not supposed to be opened until the year 8113. Thornwell Jacobs, the university’s former president, believed that a preserved museum might offer future archaeologists a glimpse into what life was like some 6,000 years before they existed.
1. Westinghouse Time Capsules
Fifty feet beneath Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in Queens, New York are two time capsules that are not to be opened until the year 6939. Both capsules were provided by Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company - one during the 1939 New York World’s Fair, and the other in 1965. They were named Time Capsule I and Time Capsule II.
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RARE FOOTAGE - Scenes of the 1939-1940 New York World's Fair
From the Ford Motor Company produced film, Scenes From the World of Tomorrow documenting the 1939-1940 World's Fair in New York City. View of buildings of the New York World's Fair of 1940. The Brooklyn Bridge. Aerial view of Manhattan Island, New York City. Skyscrapers of New York City including the Chrysler Building and the Empire State Building. New York Harbor and ships in the harbor. View of the buildings of the New York Worlds Fair in the distance in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, as seen from high in a skyscraper of New York City. The Fair's Trylon and Perisphere stand out. People walk along the sides of fountains and waterways at the fair. Crowds milling about, bands marching, dancers performing. Flags of many nations flying on the flag poles. Celebration of the 150th anniversary of George Washington, as the first President of the United States and a statue of George Washington. A bus moves on the street. Fountains and a small bridge near a waterway. Pavilions of nations of England, Japan, and Italy. The USA building and some of the buildings of U.S. States including Maine and Florida. Fountains and waterways of the fair. Woman and two girls eat ice cream cones. A Raymond Loewy - designed S1 experimental streamlined locomotive created for the Pennsylvania Railroad. Pavilions of American Telephone & Telegraph and of United States Steel Corporation, also of Westinghouse, Goodrich, Chrysler, and General Motors.
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Aerials of incomplete structures in Flushing Meadows Park, part of the New York Worlds Fair.
Aerial view of incomplete structures in Flushing Meadows, part of the New York Worlds Fair. Federal building, State building and Unisphere, the Fair's symbol shown. Entrance where trains will unload is shown. Improvements on a heliport and elaborate networks of road can be seen. Traffic on road. Views of Shea Stadium which is partially constructed. Location: New York United States. Date: June 21, 1963.
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NYC Traveler - Queens Museum , Queens 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, 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.
New York City 4K - Morning Drive - Queens - Driving Downtown
Friday morning drive in the most ethnically diverse urban area in the world. Video focuses on the Astoria and Ditmars Steinway neighborhoods in Queens New York City.
Queens is the easternmost of the five boroughs of New York City. It is the largest borough geographically and is adjacent to the borough of Brooklyn at the southwestern end of Long Island. To its east is Nassau County. Queens also shares water borders with the boroughs of Manhattan and the Bronx. Coterminous with Queens County since 1899, the borough of Queens is the second largest in population (after Brooklyn), with an estimated 2,358,582 residents in 2017, approximately 48% of them foreign-born. Queens County also is the second most populous county in the U.S. state of New York, behind Brooklyn, which is coterminous with Kings County. Queens is the fourth most densely populated county among New York City's boroughs, as well as in the United States. If each of New York City's boroughs were an independent city, Queens would be the nation's fourth most populous, after Los Angeles, Chicago, and Brooklyn. Queens is the most ethnically diverse urban area in the world.
Queens has the most diversified economy of the five boroughs of New York City. It is home to John F. Kennedy International Airport and LaGuardia Airport, both among the world's busiest, which in turn makes the airspace above Queens among the busiest in the United States. Landmarks in Queens include Flushing Meadows–Corona Park; Citi Field, home to the New York Mets baseball team; the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, site of the US Open tennis tournament; Kaufman Astoria Studios; Silvercup Studios; and Aqueduct Racetrack. The borough has diverse housing, ranging from high-rise apartment buildings in the urban areas of western and central Queens, such as Jackson Heights, Flushing, Astoria, and Long Island City, to somewhat more suburban neighborhoods in the eastern part of the borough, including Douglaston–Little Neck and Bayside.