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Flushing Meadows Corona Park...............19 Rockaway .................................................35 Restaurants ...............................................40 Museums ...................................................47 Performance Venues .................................57 Flushing ...................................................71 Astoria/Long Island City .........................75 Hotels .......................................................79 Gaming .....................................................84 Historic Houses ........................................89 Famous People .......................................101 Nature .....................................................105

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The Queens Economic Development Corporation’s mission is to create and retain jobs through programming that grows neighborhoods, assists small businesses and promotes tourism and business development.

The nonprofit agency is a focal point for economic development efforts in a borough that encompasses about 2.3 million people from every corner of the world in more than 90 distinct neighborhoods.

Emphasis is made to assist low and moderate income populations, women, immigrants and minorities.

Since 1977, QEDC has worked with scores of neighborhoods to revitalize their commercial districts by creating business organizations and establishing business improvement districts.

Entrepreneurs are assisted in the preparation of business plans through individual counseling, classes and workshops. The Queens Tourism Council promotes the many cultural, recreational and retail opportunities within the borough.

QEDC is a nonprofit governed by a board of directors representing the borough’s many community and business sectors. It is funded by the New York City Department of Small Business Services, the New York State Department of Economic Development and the Small Business Administration in addition to generous support from New York City Council elected officials and the private sector.

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MESSAGE FROM THE BOROUGH PRESIDENT Dear Friends: On behalf of the 2.3 million on residents of Queens, “The World’s Borough,” welcome to this new edition of Queens in your Pocket, your handy, comprehensive guide to our borough’s amazing it array of attractions that suit every taste and interest. d’ We call Queens “The World’s Borough” because it is the most diverse county in America and one of the most diverse places on Earth. Our residents hail from more than 120 countries and speak more than 135 languages. Such diverse international backgrounds allow Queens to offer an incredible variety of dining, shopping, cultural, entertainment and educational experiences that they have brought here from around the world.

Our borough and its diverse attractions have recently garnered a lot of positive attention from national media outlets. Lonely Planet, a prestigious publisher of travel guides, named Queens as the #1 tourism destination in the United States in 2015. The borough has also received accolades from MSN Money, which named Queens one of the 15 hottest cities in America, and from Condé Nast Traveler, which advised its readers to visit Queens right now!

With so much to see and do in Queens, it might be difficult to choose which of our great attractions you want to visit. That’s where Queens in Your Pocket comes in!

Queens in Your Pocket is an easy-to-use and easy-to-carry booklet that provides both visitors and residents with an informative one-stop resource about all the wonderful things to do in Queens. Whether you are interested in fine dining, trendy retail, exciting theatrical performances or thought-provoking cultural institutions, Queens in Your Pocket makes it easy to find what you are looking for.

I congratulate all those who were involved in the production of this current edition of Queens in Your Pocket and I enthusiastically endorse its use as a handbook that will help people from around the world take full advantage of “The World’s Borough.”

Sincerely, Melinda Katz President, Borough of Queens

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MESSAGE FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF QEDC Dear Friends: More than 30 museums and nd cultural institutions. More than 50 neighborhoods.

Restaurants offering more than 100 distinct cuisines. Where to begin?

Queens in your Pocket willl point the way. There is so rld’s much to explore in the world’s most diverse county. Our parks range from wooded tracts to beautiful beaches. Historic homes and museums showcase the past, present, and future of the United States. The best professional tennis and baseball are played here.

And then there’s what makes us famous: the food! Where else can you sample sushi, roti, steak frites, bubble tea, quail eggs, pizza, and many more items on the same street?

This guidebook will help you explore our borough, which the Lonely Planet travel media company designated as the best tourism destination in the United States in 2015. Read it and remember: “It’s in Queens!”

Enjoy.

Seth Seth Bornstein Executive Director Queens Economic Development Corporation (Queens Tourism Council is a QEDC program)

Support for Queens in Your Pocket comes in part through the Borough Tourism Grant from the New York City & Company Foundation.

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MESSAGE FROM THE PUBLISHER This year’s edition of Queens ens in your Pocket delivers the borough’s top attractions at your fingertips – from listings of attractions to cultural institutions, parks, shopping and unique dining opportunities. Let us be your guide to Queens, recently named the nation’ss No. 1 tourism destination by Lonely Planet.

Whether you are a tourist, or a lifelong resident, there’s so much to see and do in Queens. Let us help you navigate the most ethnically diverse places on the planet Earth.

We strive to publish a magazine that is as informative as it is timeless. Hang on to this book all year as a guide that you can use and enjoy over and over.

As publisher of award-winning community newspapers, and a media company, it is my job to bring you the news and events from around this fascinating borough of more than 2 million people.

This guidebook was produced with the assistance of the Queens Economic Development Corp. and the staff of The Queens Courier and Ridgewood Times. We are grateful that both organizations were able to provide a treasure trove of information about our borough.

For more information about the borough of Queens, please visit our website at www.qns.com.

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We’re Number 1 ...and in the Top 12!

Diverse, exciting, historic, trendy, a great place for families… welcome to Queens! Residents hail from more than 120 countries and speak more than 135 languages. This global reach is on full display in neighborhoods, cultural institutions, restaurants, and sporting and entertainment venues. From world class museums, tranquil parks, and historic homes to surfing, tennis, gaming, and shopping, Queens is truly one of today’s most fun-filled tourism destinations.

But don’t listen to us. Lonely Planet, an internationally renowned travel media company, selected Queens as the best tourism destination in the United States in 2015.

While the borough is hot these days, we’ve noticed another current development: the popularity of Top Ten lists. Well, why not mix the two high-flying trends? With this guidebook, the marvelous tourism aspects of Queens are presented in a list format. However, because the borough is so full of wonderful things to do and see, we present a Top 12 list. (Top Ten isn’t big enough for this borough!) Please read on.

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World-class theater in the heart of Queens Shows and tickets at www.queenstheatre.org Box Office: 718.760.0064 Just steps away from the iconic Unisphere and the New York State Pavilion in Flushing Meadows Corona Park.

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1 Flushing Meadows Corona Park Flushing Meadows Corona Park is the fourth biggest public space in New York City. With 898 acres, it’s 55 acres larger than Central Park in Manhattan, and it hosts a wonderful mix of flora, fauna, waterways, paths, athletic facilities, statues, and cultural organizations.

Smack dab in the center is the borough’s most recognizable structure: The Unisphere. Erected for the 1964 World’s Fair, this 140-feet-high, 700,000-pound stainless steel globe rises above a multi-spouted fountain. In fact, statues are everywhere in this park, which was created from ash heaps (described in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby) in order to host the 1939 World’s Fair.

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Rowboats and paddleboats are available for rent at Meadow Lake, which is the Big Apple’s largest body of fresh water. In the same spot, the American Small Craft Association keeps more than a dozen sloop-rigged sailboats, which are used for teaching and racing. It’s also the site of the annual Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival, an international event during which more than 150 teams compete in about rowing races over a long weekend in August.

Landlubbers can enjoy the multitude of walking and bicycle paths, some of which connect to the Brooklyn-Queens Greenway.

Soccer, volleyball, and cricket games abound in the numerous fields and playgrounds, and the Aquatic Center boasts an Olympic-size indoor pool, an ice rink, and changing rooms. Plus, Urban Park Rangers offer free nature walks at Willow Lake and docents offer free World’s Fair History Tours on a first-come, first-served basis.

Thus, Flushing Meadows Corona Park is number in our book.

But let’s get some details. The venues described in this section have ties to the 1939 and 1964 World’s Fairs. Some are remnants. Some are renovated and relocated exhibits. Some grew up around pavilions. But they all are located near each other in a corridor akin to the Museum Mile in Manhattan.

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CITI FIELD Citi Field is home to the New York Mets of Major League Baseball. Finished in 2009, the stadium has the capacity for about 42,000 spectators in an arena that was designed specifically for baseball with a natural grass field.

Seating is angled toward the infield and positioned lower and closer to the field that in other parks. The exterior façade and main entrance, called the “Jackie Robinson Rotunda,” are inspired by the design of the old Ebbets Field, where the Brooklyn Dodgers played from 1913 to 1957.

Inside scoop: Enjoy the baseball and the food. Mama’s of Corona, a popular Italian restaurant/café located in the shadows of the stadium, has an in-the-park stand, as do various famous restaurants and Shake Shack.

Address: 123-01 Roosevelt Ave. and www.nymets.com.

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New York Hall of Scienc NEW YORK HALL OF SCIENCE Built as part of the 1964 World’s Fair, the New York Hall of Science is a popular destination for local school groups, featuring an estimated 450 hands-on exhibits and a science playground.

Visitors can go through a room of mirrors or a room that slants, try to balance on a surfboard, spin wheels, make bubbles, and even take a speed gun to their fastballs.

The hall hosts a Maker Faire every fall. The annual, weekendlong event, which has been described as “the ultimate geek fest,” is a family-friendly celebration of invention, creativity, and resourcefulness. More than 750 makers — including tech enthusiasts, crafters, tinkerers, hobbyists, engineers, science clubbers, and artists — show off their DIY creations and handson activities.

Among the permanent collection are Connected Worlds, Design Lab, Search for Life Beyond Earth, and Hidden Kingdoms: The World of Microbes. High school students work as Explainer Interns in the Preschool Place, where there are puppet shows and science story times. Meanwhile, College Explainers are on hand to interpret exhibits, perform demonstrations, and assist with workshops and special events.

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Inside scoop: Don’t miss the Rocket Park Mini Golf Course, which reveals that the same laws of motion and gravity that guide the path of a spaceship also control the motion of golf balls here on Earth. In this nine-hole miniature course, players explore key science concepts such as propulsion, gravity, escape velocity, and gravitational assist.

Address: 47-01 111th St. and www.nysci.org.

QUEENS BOTANICAL GARDEN A converted and relocated remnant of the 1939 and 1964 World’s Fairs, the Queens Botanical Garden consists of almost 40 acres of trees, shrubs and rose, bee, herb, and flower patches.

Something is in bloom no matter the season. Special sections include Cherry Circle, Fragrance Walk, Perennial Garden, Arboretum, Bee Garden, and Pinetum. The Victorian Wedding Garden, complete with a footbridge over a babbling stream, is a favorite spot for couples to exchange vows.

Built in 2007, the visitors’ center was the first New York City building to earn a “Platinum” rating from the United States Green Building Council Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating System. The center has a planted green roof that minimizes storm water run-off, solar panels that generate 17 percent of the building’s electricity, geothermal heating and cooling that uses 55-degree water pumped from an aquifer to maintain the building’s climate, gray water recycling that cleans water from its sinks, dishwasher, and showers for use in the building’s public toilets, compost toilets for staffers and bioswales that capture storm water to reduce pressure on the city’s sewer system.

Inside scoop: The garden abuts Flushing’s Main Street on one side. This thoroughfare is the heart of the city’s biggest Chinatown with Asian restaurants, boutiques, hair salons, and stores. Some places sell vegetables and fruits that don’t have recognizable English names.

Address: 43-50 Main St. and www.queensbotanical.org.

QUEENS MUSEUM The Queens Museum re-opened in 2013 after a $69 million renovation that created 50,000 more square feet, extra galleries, studios for resident artists, and a sky-lit atrium.

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Queens Museum collection includes a display of Tiffany glass, paintings by Salvador Dali, crime scene photographs from the Daily News archives, and more than 6,000 artifacts from the 1939 and 1964 World’s Fairs.

Multi-culturalism is the focus of most of the museum’s special programming, and exhibitions have included Across the Pacific: Contemporary Korean and Korean American Art; Out of India: Contemporary Art of the South Asian Diaspora; and Modern Odysseys: Greek American Artists of the 20th Century.

Inside scoop: The museum is located in the New York City Building, which was constructed for the 1939 World’s Fair.

From 1946 to 1950, the venue hosted the United Nations General Assembly, which created the state of Israel in British-occupied Palestine in 1947. While still in Queens, the entity also dealt with the Indian Independence Act of 1947, which dissolved the British Indian Empire, and created the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which decrees that all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.

Address: Between the Grand Central Parkway and the Unisphere and www.queensmuseum.org.

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QUEENS THEATRE Queens Theatre is an independent performing arts center dedicated to providing high quality, diverse performances and programs. It began as the Theaterama, one of three structures designed by renowned modernist architect Phillip Johnson to comprise the New York State Pavilion at the 1964 World’s Fair, but the building was converted to a live entertainment venue in 1993. The campus includes an intimate setting with 464 seats in its main stage, an 80-seat black box space, and a 75-chair cabaret. The theater presents about 300 performances a year plus education programs on site, in schools and senior centers, and at branches of the Queens Library. In addition, local arts organizations rent the site.

About 75 percent of patrons are from Queens, and the borough’s diversity is reflected in its programming. The Latino Cultural Festival and the Asian Cultural Fest take place there, as does The Afro-Semitic Experience, a musical show highlighting the African-American and Jewish-American musical heritages.

Inside scoop: The 1978 musical The Wiz and the final scene of the 1997 action comedy Men in Black were filmed there.

Address: 14 United Nations Ave. S. and www.queenstheatre.org.

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USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center Queens Zoo

QUEENS ZOO The Queens Zoo, part of the Wildlife Conservation Society, is home to more than 40 species of wildlife native to the Americas.

From the bison range to the historic geodesic dome aviary, the zoo spans 11 acres of outdoor exhibits. The expansive domestic animal area offers young visitors a chance to feed and touch a variety of goats, sheep, and other barnyard favorites.

A young Andean bear born last year is a crowd pleaser. He actively explores his habitat making for an exciting zoo-going experience while visitors learn about WCS conservation efforts for this and other species. The zoo is open 365 days a year.

Inside scoop: Just outside the zoo is a carousel with 64 jumping horses, a lion, and a few chariots.

Address: 53-51 111th St. and www.queenszoo.com.

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USTA BILLIE JEAN KING NATIONAL TENNIS CENTER The USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center is the largest public tennis facility in the world. It’s also the home of the annual U.S. Open, the biggest of the four Grand Slam professional tennis tournaments. An estimated 46.5 acres, the center has 45 public tennis courts, including indoor ones with clay surfaces. It is open to the public seven days a week and 11 months a year — not during the U.S. Open, of course!

The main attraction is Arthur Ashe Stadium, the world’s largest outdoor tennis-only venue. Named for one of the sport’s first great African-American stars, this arena seats more than 22,000 and boasts 90 luxury suites, restaurants, and a two-level players lounge. Next door is the Louis Armstrong Stadium, which honors the memory of the jazz legend who lived in nearby Corona and performed at the venue when it was called the “Singer Bowl” during the 1964 World’s Fair.

Inside scoop: The qualifier rounds to the U.S. Open take place a week before the main event. They are free to the public.

Address: Perimeter Road and www.usta.com.

WORLD’S FAIR MARINA Operated by the NYC Parks Department, the World’s Fair Marina is a public water facility with a promenade located along Flushing Bay. It is separated from Citi Field and the northern edge of Flushing Meadows Corona Park by the Grand Central Parkway.

Built as a boat basin for the 1939 World’s Fair, the marina was expanded for the 1964 World’s Fair. It currently has slips, a boatand-kayak launch, a ferry landing, and a restaurant/catering hall.

Inside scoop: Skyline Princess Cruises and Wheel Fun Rentals are among businesses that rent vessels or operate party boats and ferries there.

Address: 125-00 Northern Blvd., Flushing, and www. nycgovparks.org/facilities/marinas/13

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2 Rockaway An 11-mile-long peninsula with great beaches featuring waves and sandcastles, Rockaway has been a popular summer resort since the 1830s. The A train, the Q53 bus, various private vans, and even a ferry take people there and back.

There are countless seasonal attractions – surfing shops, jetski rentals, ambulant ice cream vendors – but Rockaway is also a residential area with suburban homes and community bars. Here are some of the warm-weather options.

JACOB RIIS PARK Known as “The People’s Beach,” Jacob Riis Park offers boardwalks, landscaped walkways, pitch-and-putt golf, sand, seaside, and surf. Its famous Art Deco bathhouse is part of a district that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

It’s also a great place to ride bicycles.

The public beach is about one mile long, and it is maintained by the National Park Service. It’s open from Memorial Day to Labor Day. Address: www.nyharborparks.org

RIIS PARK BEACH BAZAAR The Riis Park Beach Bazaar has indoor and outdoor facilities near the shoreline in the vicinity of 167-02 Rockaway Beach Blvd. This mile-long shopping Mecca runs from Memorial Day Weekend through Labor Day Weekend. Hours are 11 am to 8 pm on weekends and holidays and noon to 8 pm on weekdays, with possible late hours on Wednesday.

The bazaar opened in 2016 and almost immediately became a tourism destination due to its top-notch cuisine. Here are some of the vendors: Rockaway Clam Bar; Ample Hills Creamery; Fletcher’s BBQ; Bolivian Llama Party; Coney Shack; Chick’nCone; East Coast Roast; Oaxaca Tacos; and Cuisine by Claudette.

WHALE AND DOLPHIN WATCHING Captain Tom Paladino leads Atlantic Ocean expeditions with his company, American Princess Cruises, on Wednesdays through Sundays as the weather permits. Voyagers check out 50-foot-

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long humpback whales and playful dolphins while still being able to see the Manhattan skyline. Plus, the treks include presentations and exhibits by naturalists.

Anchored at the Jacob Riis Landing in the Rockaways, Captain Paladino’s cruises last about four hours. The seven-year-old company’s sighting percentage (trips versus whale sightings) is almost exactly 90 percent.

The American Princess is a 95-foot-long aluminum cruising vessel. The United States Coast Guard has certified it for up to 250 passengers at a time. Equipped with a high output stereo/ PA system with speakers, the vessel has a large upper deck with a canopy and removable side curtains. It also has a large main deck and cabin with cushioned seating, movable tables for casual dining, a bar station, and a separate buffet area.

More info is at www.americanprincesscruises.com and 718.474.0555.

TARZAN BOAT It showed up in August 2016, and Jamaica Bay has never been the same. The Tarzan Boat is a floating jungle gym with a 14-feet-above-water platform, diving boards, two trampolines, a curvy slide, various swinging ropes, and even a sun deck. As many as 40 people can bounce around (and off) the structure at the same time.

Also referred to as the “Jungle Float,” there are only a few of these mini-playgrounds in the world. Mitt Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts and Republican candidate for president in 2012, owns one of them. He keeps it in a pond near a property he owns in New Hampshire.

For $25, customers get two-hour sessions of playtime.

Participants must be age 8 or older and be able to swim. Life jackets are suggested and provided.

In addition to the Tarzan Boat, Rockaway Water Park (https:// rockawaywaterpark.com/) rents other sea crafts, including jet skis and paddle boards.

SURF SCHOOLS Rockaway has some of the best swell on the Eastern Seaboard.

The peninsula also has some great surf schools featuring native instructors who beam with enthusiasm for the sport and can teach all skill levels. Each one has an interesting story.

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Will was the first East Coaster to be nominated for a World Surf League Big Wave Award for best performance. Plus, he is on record for having ridden one of the biggest and most critical waves at Nazare, a surfing community in Portugal. Meanwhile, Cliff is a formally nationally ranked lifeguard who pulled three drowning teenage boys to safety off Long Beach, Long Island, over Memorial Day Weekend in 2012. According to reports, he paddled into the water on his surfboard to grab one boy about 50 yards from shore and then got the other two lads about 100 yards out. The Skudin brothers provide a wide variety of lessons and combine sports such as soccer and lacrosse with surfing to offer dual camps for children. Check them out at Beach 67th Street and Beach Front Road and skudinsurf.com.

Conatus: Founder and lead instructor Dion Mattison, a former pro surfer, was born on a sailboat. The son of a wave enthusiast, he has been surfing since age one. Dion’s philosophy is to teach students about the ocean and the sand, not to push them into anything. In fact, his initial classes focus on basics like paddling and maneuvering. Check it out at conatussurfclub.com Locals: Co-owners Mike Reinhardt and Mike Kololyan are best buddies who grew up in Rockaway. They are lifelong surfers and skaters and they teach both hobbies at this academy, which they founded in 2011. Currently, they offer individual and group lessons, camps for kids and charity programs. Check them out on the sand at Beach 69th Street and localssurfschool.com.

New York: Frank Cullen throws yoga into the mix. That’s right.

One employee, Kwame LaBassiere, uses vinyasa flow, breathing exercises and relaxation techniques to increase energy, balance, strength and flexibility. Classes begin in the sand. Then, they go where the spirit takes them. Check them out at Beach 69th Street and surflessonsnewyork101.com.

Editor’s note: The Gateway National Recreation Area is described in the Public Spaces section. The Rockaway Artists Alliance is in the Museum section. Rockaway Theatre Company is in the Performance Venues section.

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The result? A wide array of Old World restaurants that are authentic, affordable, and amazing. Popular staples like Chinese, Italian, and Indian establishments are everywhere, of course, but so are places serving Guyanese, Nepalese, and even Bukharan cuisine. In short, there’s something for every palate. Here’s a list of recommended spots organized by neighborhood.

FLUSHING/CORONA Antonio’s Kitchen, 76-08 21st Ave., East Elmhurst 11370, 718.728.9200, www.antoniosnyc.com Asian Jewels (Seafood, Dim Sum), 133-30 39th Ave., Flushing, 11354, 718.359.8600, www.tunseng.com Bangkok Thai Cuisine, 38-04 Prince St., Flushing, 11354, 718.353.1888, www.bangkokthainyc.com Buddy’s Kosher Deli, 215-01 73rd Ave., Oakland Gardens 11324, 718.631.2110, www.buddyskosherdeli.com Fu Run (Muslim Chinese), 40-09 Prince St., Flushing, 11354, 718.321.1363, www.furunflushing.com Kum Gang San (Korean), 138-28 Northern Blvd., Flushing, 11354, 718.461.0909, www.kumgangsan.net Leaf Bar & Lounge (Craft cocktails, Taiwanese small plates on a rooftop), 133-42 39th Ave., Tenth Fl., Flushing, 11354, 718.865.8158, www.leafbarandlounge.com Louie’s Pizza & Restaurant, 81-34 Baxter Ave., Elmhurst, 11373, 718.440.9346.

Mama’s of Corona (Italian), 46-02 104th St., Corona, 11368, 718.898.6069 Mulan (Chinese), 136-17 39th Ave., Flushing, 11354, 718.886.8526, www.mulan-restaurant.com 40

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New Curry Leaves (Malaysian), 135-31 40th Rd., Flushing, 11354, 718.762.9313 Park Side (Italian), 107-01 Corona Ave., Corona, 11368, 718.271.9321, www.parksiderestaurantny.com Pho (Vietnamese), 38-02 Prince St., Flushing, 11354, 718.461.8686 Rose House, 136-17 39th Ave., Flushing, 11354, 718.359.7673, www.queenscrossing.com TortillerĂ­a Nixtamal (Mexican), 104-05 47th Ave., Corona, 11368, 718.699.2434, www.tortillerianixtamal.com

ASTORIA/LIC/WOODSIDE Bareburger (Organic), 23-01 31st St., Astoria, 11105, 718.204.7167 and 48-19 Vernon Blvd., LIC, 11101, 718.937.2273, www.bareburger.com Christos Steakhouse (Mediterranean), 41-08 23rd Ave., Astoria, 11105, 718.777.8400, www.christossteakhouse.com De Mole (Mexican), 42-20 30th Ave., Astoria, 11103, 718.777.1655, www.demoleastoria.com Court Square Diner, 45-30 23rd St., Long Island City, 11101, 718.392.1222, www.courtsquarediner.com Himalayan Yak (Tibetan/Nepalese), 72-20 Roosevelt Ave., Jackson Heights, 11372, 718.779.1119 Il Falco, 21-50 44th Dr., Long Island City, 11101, 718.709.0009, www.ilfalcolic.com I Love Paraguay (South American), 43-16 Greenpoint Ave., Sunnyside, 11104, 718.786.5534, www.ilovepy.com Jackson Diner (Indian), 37-47 74th St., Jackson Heights, 11372, 718.672.1232 M. Wells (French Canadian), 21-17 49th Ave., LIC, 11101, 718.425.6917, www.magasinwells.com Manducatis Rustica (Italian), 46-35 Vernon Blvd., LIC, 11101, 718.937.1312, www.manducatisrustica.com Renacer Boliviano (South American), 67-03 Woodside Ave., Woodside, 11377, 718.476.2200 41

Sripraphaj (Thai), 64-13 39th Ave., Woodside, 11377, 718.899.9599. www.sripraphairestaurant.com Taverna Kyclades (Greek), 33-07 Ditmars Blvd., Astoria, 11105, 718.545.8666, www.tavernakyclades.com The Inkan, 45-02 23rd St., Long Island City, 11101, www. theinkanrestaurant.com Zenon Taverna (Greek/Cypriot), 34-10 31st Ave., Astoria, 11106, 718.956.0133, www.zenontaverna.com

ROCKAWAY Bungalow Bar & Restaurant, 377 Beach 92nd St., 11693, www.ingoodcompanyhg.com/bungalow Comm(Unity) House, 101-19 Rockaway Beach Blvd., 11694, 347.619.9417, www.communityhouserb.com Kennedy’s Restaurant, 406 Bayside Dr., Breezy Point, 11697, 718.945.0202, www.kennedysbreezypoint.com Riis Park Beach Bazaar, 167-02 Rockaway Beach Blvd., 11694, www.riisparkbeachbazaar.com Thai Rock, 375 Beach 92nd St., 11693, 718.945.5111, www. thairock.us The Bayhouse, 500 Bayside Dr., 11697, 347.926.4926, www. bayhousebreezypoint.com Wharf Bar & Grill, 416 Beach 116th St., 11694, 718.474.8807

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GREATER JAMAICA Lenny’s Clam Bar 161-03 Cross Bay Blvd., Howard Beach, 11414, 718.845.5100, www.lennysclambar.com Neir’s Tavern (The country’s oldest tavern continually operating in the same place), 87-48 78th St., Woodhaven, 11421, 718.296.0600, www.neirstavern.com O Lavrador (Portuguese), 138-40 101st Ave., Jamaica, 11435, 718.526.1526, www.olavradorrestaurant.com Pa-Nash (North African/West Indian), 144-14 243rd St., Rosedale, 11422, 718.978.6094, www.panashnyc.com.

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BONUS: BENFAREMO — LEMON ICE KING OF CORONA In 1946, Nicola Benfaremo started selling fruity Italian ices in Corona. Soon thereafter, his son, Peter, took over the family business. Today, the Lemon Ice King offers roughly 40 flavors of the product – including licorice, bubble gum, peanut butter and four sugar-free items – from a store that has a cult-like following and even received an award of distinction from Zagat.

There’s a mini-tourism attraction across the street, where intense bocce games are played at William F. Moore Park. Called “Spaghetti Park” by locals, this public space has a clay-and-sand bocce court with lighting that attracts players from all over the city.

Inside scoop: In the opening credits for the television show The King of Queens, the two main protagonists buy ices at the store.

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4 Museums GREATER ASTORIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY Chartered in 1985, the Greater Astoria Historical Society offers such programs as lectures, community tours, exhibits, films, debates, and reading series.

Inside scoop: The society is credited as an historical adviser for the 2013 film The Great Gatsby, starring Leonardo DiCaprio.

The society’s work helped director Baz Lurhman win an Academy Award for Set Design.

Address: Quinn Building, 35-20 Broadway, Fourth Fl., Long Island City, and www.astorialic.org.

LOUIS ARMSTRONG HOUSE MUSEUM Louis Daniel Armstrong (1901–1971) was one of the most famous jazz musicians of all time. Often called “Satchmo,” he rose to prominence in the 1920s due mostly to his cornet and trumpet skills, his enthralling gravelly voice, and his ability to improvise on stage.

From 1943 until his death, he lived in Corona with his wife, Lucille, who donated the property to the city for use as a museum upon her death in 1983. The house is basically untouched, as nobody else has lived in this national landmark. In the back is a Japanese-inspired garden that Satchmo loved.

Inside scoop: The museum is currently undergoing a $23 million campaign to build a 14,000-square-foot education center with parking in a lot across the street. The center will feature a stateof-the-art gallery, a 68-seat jazz club, and a gift shop. It will also house Armstrong’s archives.

Address: 34-56 107th St., Corona, and www. louisarmstronghouse.org.

MOMA PS1 MoMA PS1 displays some of the world’s best contemporary art. The museum strives to be a Mecca for emerging artists and genres, presenting more than 50 exhibitions a year.

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Located in a former school building, the venue has an outdoor gallery, a two-story display room with high ceilings, and many creatively utilized nooks and crannies.

Inside scoop: From June to September, MoMA PS1 presents Warm Up, a Saturday music series that introduces audiences to experimental live music, sound, and DJs in its courtyard.

Address: 22-25 Jackson Ave., Long Island City, and www. momaps1.org.

MUSEUM OF THE MOVING IMAGE The Museum of the Moving Image offers multimedia exhibits on just about every aspect of film, movies, television, internet, cartoons, and even video games. The Sumner M. Redstone Theater and the Celeste and Armand Bartos Screening Room host retrospectives during which they screen movies with certain themes or stars. Then there are the Pinewood Dialogues, an ongoing series of conversations with Hollywood luminaries such as Martin Scorsese, Daniel Day-Lewis, Forest Whitaker, and Glenn Close.

On permanent display is Behind the Screen, which explains how movies and television shows are created, marketed, and exhibited through interactive software, artifacts, and lighting. The museum also presents changing exhibits.

Inside scoop: The museum is located on the former site of Famous Players-Lasky Studio, where the Marx Brothers filmed many of their movies. In 1942, the United States Signal Corps took it over to make training and propaganda films during World War II. Address: 36-01 35th Ave., Astoria, and www.movingimage.us.

NOGUCHI MUSEUM The Noguchi Museum was designed by Japanese-American sculptor Isamu Noguchi in 1985. As to be expected, the twostory, 24,000-square-foot, 12-gallery space exhibits his sculptures, furniture designs, architectural models, and drawings. There is also an adjacent outdoor garden with more Noguchi sculptures.

The museum is located across the street from where Noguchi worked and lived during the 1960s and 1970s. He bought a photogravure plant and gas station in 1974 and converted them into his museum.

Inside scoop: Noguchi is free on the first Friday of most months.

Address: 9-01 33rd Rd., Long Island City, and www.noguchi.org.

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SCULPTURECENTER Located in a cavernous converted trolley repair shop, SculptureCenter is New York City’s only contemporary art museum dedicated to sculpture. Over the past 18 years, the center has presented works by nearly 750 emerging and established artists, ranging from internationally recognized stars to emerging local talent.

In 2014, the venue finished a major, multi-million-dollar renovation adding a bookshop, coatroom, seating area, and restrooms to 6,500 square feet of unique exhibition spaces on two levels. The museum also boasts a 1,500-square-foot, enclosed courtyard for outdoor exhibitions.

Inside scoop: The center was founded in 1928 as The Clay Club in Brooklyn. Over the following years, it changed its name, moved to a carriage house on West 8th Street in Manhattan, and then relocated to another carriage house on East 69th Street. In 2001, the center purchased its present site. The building was then redesigned by Maya Lin, the landscape artist who designed the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C. Address: 44-19 Purves St., Long Island City, and www.sculpturecenter.org.

SOCRATES SCULPTURE PARK Socrates Sculpture Park is New York City’s only public area dedicated to giving artists the chance to exhibit large-scale creations. Huge banners stand beside enormous statues or long, winding pieces. The park is located at the banks of the East River, giving the air a slightly salty aspect and fantastic views of Roosevelt Island and Manhattan’s Upper East Side, including Gracie Mansion, where the mayor lives.

The park was actually an illegal dumping site until 1986, when a group of artists and local activists reclaimed it. Today, it hosts outdoor movies, an annual kite-flying extravaganza, a circus, a bicycle parade, Saturday workshops, and other activities.

Inside scoop: Socrates is only one block from the Noguchi Museum and across the street from the Mansard-Roofed Clock Tower. This L-shaped tower is atop a building that once housed the Sohmer & Company piano factory, which was built in 1886, when the area was spotted with piano factories.

Address: 32-01 Vernon Blvd., Long Island City, and www. socratessculpturepark.org.

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BONUS ENTITIES Queens Council on the Arts Queens Council on the Arts was established in 1966 by various leaders of the cultural community under the guidance of Jeanne Dale Katz, whose daughter, Melinda Katz, is the current borough president. Since its founding, QCA has evolved into a wide-ranging arts service organization fostering live cultural experiences and providing grants, professional development, and education services throughout the borough.

Inside scoop: The council organizes the Queens Art Express, a huge block party in June that mixes dance, film, literature, music, performance, theater, and visual arts. It also runs 3rd Space, where artists gather to share ideas and talents.

Address: 37-11 35th Ave., Astoria, and www.queenscouncilarts.org.

Rockaway Artists Alliance The Rockaway Artists Alliance provides free lectures, presentations, exhibitions, and special events as well as organizing beautification projects. Working with the Gateway National Recreational Area, the alliance is currently renovating previously dilapidated buildings to establish and cultural arts center.

Address: 260 Beach 116th St., Rockaway Park, and www. rockawayartistsalliance.org.

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5 Performance Venues ASTORIA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER Founded in 2001, the Astoria Performing Arts Center strives to provide high-quality theater and support local youth and senior citizens. APAC has received a total of 51 New York Innovative Theatre Award nominations and 11 wins, as well as an Off-Off Broadway Theatre Review Award for Outstanding Production of a Musical. APAC also gives exposure to emerging talent through readings and workshops and accepts new play and musical submissions on an ongoing basis.

Inside scoop: APAC offers free community programs, including a summer performance camp for children ages 8 to 13, afterschool playwriting classes for middle school students, and acting for those over age 60.

Address: 34-12 36th St., Ste. 1/232, Astoria, and www.apacny.org.

BLACK SPECTRUM THEATRE COMPANY The Black Spectrum Theatre Company produces and presents works relating to the African Diaspora with an emphasis on the African-American and Caribbean-American experiences.

Roughly 20,000 people attend events at the 325-seat theater every year.

Founded in 1970, the company strives to involve local residents in its projects. It has a youth company that has produced such stars as Lisa Nicole Carson from the TV show Ally McBeal and Desiree Coleman from Mama I Want to Sing.

Inside scoop: The venue lies within Roy Wilkins Park, a 54-acre spread of playgrounds, baseball fields, basketball courts, handball courts, tennis courts, picnic areas, and a jogging track.

Address: 177th Street and Baisley Boulevard, Jamaica, and www.blackspectrum.com.

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Inside scoop: There is a former jail cell backstage that now serves as a dressing room.

Address: 137-35 Northern Blvd. and www.flushingtownhall.org.

FOREST HILLS STADIUM Built in 1923 to host the U.S. Openâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s center court matches in conjunction with the nearby West Side Tennis Club, Forest Hills Stadium had its first heyday in the 1960s and 1970s, when it was also an iconic concert venue. Not only did Arthur Ashe and Chris Evert win Grand Slam tennis championships there, but the Beatles played two consecutive sold-out shows there in 1964. The Doors and Simon & Garfunkel, graduates of Forest Hills High School, did a double bill in 1967. Even Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand, and Diana Ross performed there before the venue shut down in the mid 1990s due to financial concerns.

As West Side Tennis Club continued operation, Forest Hills Stadium lay dormant until undergoing a roughly $3 million renovation in 2013 that included a complete structural overhaul, seat replacement, and the installation of a state-of-the-art stage.

The site re-opened in August of that year with a concert by British rock band Mumford & Sons. Since then, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s attracted a wide range of musical performers, including The Who, Van Morrison, and Carlos Santana.

Inside scoop: The stadium is located right off the E, M, F, R subway lines as well as a Long Island Rail Road stop. Public transportation is definitely the best way to get there as parking in the area is very limited.

Address: One Tennis Pl., Forest Hills, and www. foresthillsstadium.com.

GREEK CULTURAL CENTER The Greek Cultural Center is the stage for music, theater, dance, puppetry, and educational workshops. Founded in 1974, it strives to bring the wonders of Greek and Greek-American culture to audiences.

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Inside scoop: Productions are often in Greek with simultaneous translation in English.

Address: 26-80 30th St., #B2, Astoria, and www. greekculturalcenter.org.

JAMAICA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER Housed in a converted church that dates to 1858, the Jamaica Performing Arts Center has a multi-functional, state-of-the-art, 400-seat theater. Built in the early Romanesque revival style and designed by master carpenter Sidney J. Young with the assistance of master mason Anders Peterson, the building features a gabled brick facade with brownstone trim, arched entryways, asymmetrical towers, and stained glass windows.

JPAC was recently awarded the Lucy G. Moses Award, which is the New York Landmarks Conservancyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s highest award for achievement in preservation.

Inside scoop: JPCA is managed by the Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning, a nonprofit cultural institution that promotes local and international artists through workshops, visual-art exhibitions, music, and theater. JCALâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s headquarters is in a neo-Renaissance building which houses two 1,650-square-foot visual arts galleries, a 99-seat proscenium theater, multiple dance studios, soundproof music studios, and ceramics and digital art studios.

Address: 153-10 Jamaica Ave. for JPAC, 161-04 Jamaica Ave. for JCAP, and www.jcal.org.

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KUPFERBERG CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS Located on the Queens College campus, the Kupferberg Center for the Performing Arts encompasses three venues: acoustically perfect LeFrak Concert Hall, which can hold about 500 guests; Colden Auditorium, which seats 2,143; and 476-seat Irving and Susan Wallack Goldstein Theater.

Kupferberg presents a wide range of entertainment to about 350,000 patrons each year, including classical music, jazz, dance, seminars, conferences, and children’s events. Billy Joel, Janis Joplin, Cyndi Lauper, the New York Philharmonic, the Vienna Boys’ Choir, and Yo-Yo Ma are among the entertainers who have performed there recently. Plus, the venue can be rented.

Inside scoop: Kupferberg also operates the Godwin-Ternbach Museum and the Queens College Art Center.

Address: Queens College is at the corner of the Long Island Expressway and Kissena Boulevard (Exit 24), Flushing, and www.kupferbergcenter.org.

LAGUARDIA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER The LaGuardia Performing Arts Center’s Mainstage Theatre seats 740 guests on a single level plus up to 12 guests in a wheelchair section. The center’s Little Theatre features a raised, thrust stage surrounded on three sides by 220 steeply raked seats which offer excellent sightlines. Space for eight people in wheelchairs is available behind the last row of fixed seats.

Inside scoop: The center is also involved in the LPAC Lab, an off-shoot talent pool for artists who can develop their works in progress. The Lab offers year-long residencies.

Address: 31-10 Thomson Ave., Long Island City, and www. laguardiaperformingarts.org.

QUEENSBOROUGH PERFORMING ARTS CENTER The Queensborough Performing Arts Center, which features a proscenium theater with 850 seats, hosts an annual Professional Performing Arts Series to bring a high level of accessible, worldclass entertainment to the community at large. Throughout its over-50-year history, QPAC has successfully produced more than 1,200 performances and served more than 1 million individuals. QPAC’s affordable prices allow working families, younger generations, and seniors the opportunity to enjoy first62

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Recent celebrity performers have included Vanessa Williams, Michael Bolton, Chita Rivera, Robert Klein, Dionne Warwick, and Bernadette Peters. Recent international troupes include the Moscow Ballet and the New Shanghai Circus.

Inside scoop: The Oratorio Society of Queens holds its annual holiday concert at QPAC every December.

Address: 222-05 56th Ave., Bayside, and www.visitqpac.org.

ROCKAWAY THEATRE COMPANY Founded in 1997, the Rockaway Theatre Company offers performances intermittently throughout the year, usually Broadway musicals, comedies, and dramas. Past performances include Guys and Dolls, The King and I, My Fair Lady, Fiddler On the Roof, Oklahoma, and Annie Get Your Gun. This nonprofit’s faculty teaches workshops in such subjects as acting, vocal, tap dance, dancing, stage management, sound, light design, and musical theater history.

Inside scoop: The company performs at a renovated theater that was once a cinema for United States Army personnel at Fort Tilden.

Address: Fort Tilden’s Post Theatre (Building T4), The Rockaways, and www.rockawaytheatrecompany.org.

THALÍA SPANISH THEATRE The borough’s only bilingual Latino venue, Thalía Spanish Theatre is dedicated to promoting and preserving the heritage of Hispanic drama. Founded in 1977 by Cuban actress/director Silvia Brito, Thalía specializes in the zarzuela, an art form that combines operatic singing with dialogue, and other kinds of Spanish-language drama genres. But the 100-seat theater also promotes Spanish-language playwrights, dancers, and folklorists.

Inside scoop: Lance Corporal Thomas P. Noonan Playground is a few blocks from Thalía on Greenpoint Avenue and 43rd Street.

The public space is named after a native son who was awarded a posthumous Congressional Medal of Honor, a Purple Heart, the National Defense Service Medal, and a Vietnam Service Medal with bronze stars for his heroics in the Vietnam War. On Feb. 5, 1969, Noonan was fatally shot by North Vietnamese soldiers while carrying a seriously wounded United States soldier to safety.

Address: 41-17 Greenpoint Ave., Sunnyside, and www. thaliatheatre.org.

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THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY THEATER The OBIE- and Bessie-winning Chocolate Factory Theater is a leading incubator for experimental performance. The 5,000-square-foot facility is home to work emphasizing multidisciplinary collaboration combining movement, music, video, and text to devise a means of storytelling that is immediate, collage-like, highly visual, and dependent on new technologies.

When successful, the work is not easily categorized as theater, dance, new music or video art and is rather a thorough intermingling of these disciplines.

The factory provides more than 100 visiting artists a year with dedicated access to the space and technical equipment, substantive creative residency periods, commissioning funds, administrative support and a guaranteed artist fee.

Inside scoop: The agency secured a $3.8 million grant in 2017 to purchase a one-story building at 38-29 24th St. in Long Island City. The space is currently undergoing a renovation to create a 99-seat flexible performance space with a sprung-wood dance floor, a 2,000-square-foot rehearsal space, an office, and on-site nursery for artists with small children.

Address until 2019: 5-49 49th Ave., Long Island City, and www. chocolatefactorytheater.org. High-quality video documentation is at vimeo.com/chocolatefactory.

THE SECRET THEATRE The Secret Theatre features a custom-built, 98-person performance space and a rehearsal room. A Mecca for independent troupes, it hosts musicals, operas, film festivals, and even art openings.

Inside scoop: The venue has an in-residence company, The Queens Players, an improvisational comedy group.

Address: 44-02 23rd St., LIC, and www.secrettheatre.com.

YORK COLLEGE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER The York College Performing Arts Center has a main stage for about 1,360 patrons and a 152-seat little theater. The center puts on a wide variety of plays, concerts, dances, benefits, operas, tributes, and poetry nights, often celebrating African-American, Latin, and Caribbean cultures. The center has a parking lot with 750 spaces with an additional, 170-space lot nearby.

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Inside scoop: The Fine Arts Gallery at York College is on the same campus. The gallery, which opened in 1990, boasts a 1,000-square-foot open floor plan with movable walls and stateof-the-art technology that enable displays of diverse artworks.

Located in the Academic Core Building with an entrance on Liberty Avenue, the gallery presents up to four professional contemporary art shows and two current student art shows over the academic year.

Address: 94-20 Guy R. Brewer Blvd., Jamaica, and www.york. cuny.edu.

BONUS ENTITIES Oratorio Society of Queens Established in 1927, the Oratorio Society of Queens is the borough’s oldest performing cultural organization. The society strives to engage, educate, and uplift the community by presenting musical programs that span the repertoire from great choral masterpieces to popular all-time favorites. Its big events are annual holiday and spring concerts.

Address: www.queensoratorio.org.

Queens World Film Festival The Queens World Film Festival screens more than 100 movies at multiple venues over two weeks in March. The event also features panel discussions and boundless networking as filmmakers from around the world attend.

Address: www.queensworldfilmfestival.com.

Editor’s note: Queens Theatre is in the Flushing Meadows Corona Park section.

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6 Flushing Though it doesn’t have as good a marketing name as Manhattan’s Chinatown, Flushing is the center of panAsian commercial, residential, and social life in New York City and the entire Eastern Seaboard. The former Dutch and English settlement is currently home to a “Little Taiwan” and “Koreatown” along with large Afghan, Bangladeshi, Indian, Mainland Chinese, Southeast Asian, Spanish-speaking, and Sri Lankan influences.

The diverse neighborhood’s heart is the well-trafficked, hustlingand-bustling Main Street, which features countless hotels, markets, performance venues, restaurants, and stores. The area is easily accessible via the 7 train, which runs to Midtown Manhattan, and with about 25 hotels, it’s a great place to stay.

Add a botanical garden, parks, and theaters, and it’s a great place to play. It’s also a great place to dine, hosting regional cuisines from every corner of globe, with the most sought-after spots in NYC for foodies-in-the-know.

For a quick bite, stop by Apollo Bakery, Taipan Bakery, Fay Da Bakery or New Flushing Bakery for piping hot roast pork buns, Portuguese custard tarts, and other delicious baked goods. Feast on more than 100 types of dumplings at the famous Dumpling Galaxy in Arcadia Mall or to please the whole family, visit the famous food courts for a dizzying number of food stalls located within other malls such as New York Food Court, New World Mall, and Queens Crossing. For a most charming retreat in the heart of the neighborhood, explore elegant tea houses such as Rose House, Prince Tea House, and Fang’s Gourmet Tea.

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Flushing, beyond the well-known Main Street, is truly a wonder to explore. Take an afternoon to walk around the neighborhood, making stops in Murray Hill to try an array of authentic Korean BBQ dishes at Hahm Ji Bach or the Hindu Temple Society of North America, whose Temple Canteen is a well-kept secret for delicious dosas, visited by Anthony Bourdain himself!

Flushing has a rich history of multicultural diversity. As the birthplace of religious freedom, it is home to many houses of worship representing almost every faith. Right when emerging from the Main Street 7 Train station, marvel at the iconic St. George’s Episcopal Church with more than 300 years of history.

A stone’s throw away is the Quaker Meeting House – the oldest house of worship in New York City and a National Historic Landmark. Break the other direction and explore the magnificent Free Synagogue of Flushing with its beautiful dome and stained glass windows.

History buffs will be pleased to discover seven historic houses, many of which are within walking distance from one another. Stop by the Bowne House, Queens Historical Society, and the Voelker Orth Museum, which has a beautiful Victorian garden and bird sanctuary. Another beloved landmark, the Lewis H. Latimer House Museum, celebrates the legacy of an African-American inventor whose innovations in designing carbon filaments ushered in the age of electric light. Come December, celebrate the festive season with an annual holiday historic house tour where each historic house offers tours, activities, crafts, seasonal displays, and decorations.

Visitors also come from around the region to shop for unique products and services. Roosevelt Avenue is well-known for beauty shops lining the streets. Flushing is a one-of-a-kind destination that brings people from all walks of life together to create a truly international vibe.

For more recommendations and hidden gems, check out the newly launched destination website: www.flushingfantastic.nyc.

Editor’s note: The neighborhood’s fantastic restaurants, hotels, performance arts venues, and historic houses are in other sections.

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7 Astoria/Long Island City To paraphrase 18th century English writer Samuel Johnson’s comments about London: “When one is tired of Northwestern Queens, he is tired of life.”

Astoria and Long Island City are booming with new residential buildings, restaurants, bars, cultural attractions, and hotels. Plus, the high-energy area is only one subway stop from Grand Central Station on the 7 train and one stop from Manhattan’s Upper East Side on the N train.

Many of the hotels, restaurants, and cultural attractions are mentioned in other parts of this guidebook. Here are a few fun places: Astoria Park; Astoria Performing Arts Center; City Ice Pavilion; Dorsky Gallery; Fisher Landau Center for Art; Greater Astoria Historical Society; Gantry Plaza State Park; Greek Cultural Center; LaGuardia Performing Arts Center; Hunter Point South’s Waterfront Park; LIC Flea + Food; LIC Landing, MoMA PS1; Museum of the Moving Image; New York Irish Center; Noguchi Museum; Queens Council on the Arts; SculptureCenter; Socrates Sculpture Park; Thalía Spanish Theatre; The Chocolate Factory Theater; The Creek and the Cave; and The Standing Room Comedy Club. More information is at www. longislandcityqueens.com.

The latest news is ferry service from 34th Street in Manhattan to LIC Landing and Astoria. A one-way pass costs $2.75 or the same amount as a ride on a subway or bus. Plus, the trip only takes a few glorious minutes.

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The other news is the constant upgrade and expansion of Gantry Plaza State Park, which covers 12 acres of East River shoreline.

With direct views of Midtown Manhattan, the park contains playing fields, fishing piers, a promenade, and outdoor furniture in a site that was once a dock facility with gantry cranes. A 120-foot-long and 60-foot-high neon Pepsi-Cola sign adds to the mystical, urban-rural feel. (The soda maker used to operate a bottling plant in the northern portion.) The pier area has become a popular spot for dance, music, and theatrical performances.

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8 Hotels Queens is in the middle of an unprecedented hotel boom.

Currently, there are more than 100 inns in the borough, including everything from top-luxury venues with valet parking, a restaurant, and a swimming pool to youth hostels where clients share large rooms with unknown others.

Plus, hotels are located all around the borough with large clusters in Long Island City, Flushing, and near the two airports (LaGuardia and Kennedy International). In short, there’s something for every traveler’s needs. Here’s a list of some recommended lodges indexed by neighborhood.

FLUSHING/LAGUARDIA AREA Aloft New York LaGuardia Airport, 100-15 Ditmars Blvd., East Elmhurst, 11369, 347.639.7799, www. aloftnewyorklaguardiaairport.com Fairfield Inn by Marriott LaGuardia Airport Astoria, 45-20 Astoria Blvd., Astoria, 11103, 718.267.0008, www.marriott.com/ lgaqa Hampton Inn New York - LaGuardia Airport, 102-40 Ditmars Blvd., East Elmhurst, 11369, 718.672.6600, http://hamptoninn3. hilton.com/en/hotels/new-york/hampton-inn-new-york-laguardiaairport-NYCLAHX/index.html Holiday Inn LaGuardia Airport Hotel at Citi Field, 37-10 114th St., Corona, 11368, 718.651.2100, www.holidaylga.com Hyatt Place Flushing/LaGuardia Airport, 133-42 39th Ave., Flushing, 11354, 718.888.1234, www.hyattplaceflushing.com LaGuardia Plaza Hotel, 104-04 Ditmars Blvd., East Elmhurst, 11369, 718.269.1715, www.laguardiaplazahotel.com Marriott New York LaGuardia Airport, 102-05 Ditmars Blvd., East Elmhurst, 11369, 516.423.2161, www.marriott.com/ new-york Sheraton LaGuardia East Hotel, 135-20 39th Ave., Flushing, 11354, 718.460.6666, www.sheratonlaguardiaeast.com

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SpringHill Suites by Marriott New York LaGuardia Airport, 112-15 Northern Blvd., Corona, 11368, 347.396.9405, www. springhillsuitesnyclga.com The Parc Hotel, 39-16 College Point Blvd., Flushing, 11354, 718.358.8897, www.theparchotel.com

WESTERN QUEENS (LONG ISLAND CITY/ASTORIA) Aloft Long Island City Manhattan View, 27-45 Jackson Ave., LIC, 11101, 718.433.9305, www. aloftlongislandcitymanhattanview.com Boro Hotel, 38-28 27th St., LIC, NY 11101, 718.433.1375, www.borohotel.com Courtyard Long Island City/New York Manhattan View, 29-15 Queens Plaza North, LIC, 11101, www.marriott.com/ NYCQL Hilton Garden Inn Long Island City, 29-21 41st Ave., LIC, 11101, 718.786.6001, www.hgilongislandcity.com Holiday Inn Long Island City Manhattan View, 39-05 29th St., LIC, 11101, 718.707.3700, www.holidayinnmanhattanview.com Paper Factory Hotel, 37-06 36th St., LIC, 11101, 718.392.7200, www.paperfactoryhotel.com The Local NY, 13-02 44th Ave., LIC, 11101, 347.738.5251, www.thelocalny.com Wyndham Garden LIC/Manhattan View, 44-29 9th St., LIC, 11101, 718.906.1900, https://www.wyndhamhotels.com/ wyndham-garden/long-island-city-new-york/wyndham-gardenlong-island-city-manhattan-view/rooms-rates?

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JAMAICA/JFK AREA Best Western Kennedy JFK Airport, 144-25 153rd Lane, Jamaica, 11434, 718.977.2100, www.bwjfkairport.com Crowne Plaza JFK Airport NYC, 138-10 135th Ave., Jamaica, 11436, 718.530.1160, www.cpJFKairport.com Courtyard New York JFK Airport, 145-11 North Conduit Ave., Jamaica, 11436, 718.848.2121, www.marriott.com/nycjf Doubletree JFK Hotel, 135-30 140th St., Jamaica, 11436, 718.322.8761, www.doubletreejfk.com Hilton Garden Inn Queens/JFK Airport, 148-18 134th St., Jamaica, 11430, 718.322.3338, www.queensjfkairport.hgi.com Hilton New York JFK Airport, 144-02 135th Ave., Jamaica, 11436, 718.659.0200, www.jfkairport.hilton.com Radisson Hotel JFK Airport, 135-30 140th St., Jamaica, 11436, 718.322.2300, www.radisson.com/jfk_airport

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AQUEDUCT RACETRACK Best known as “Big A,” Aqueduct Racetrack is the only thoroughbred horse-racing facility located entirely within New York City limits. With a season that usually runs from October through April, the winterized complex’s main feature is a 1-andone-eighth-mile course. It also has smaller inner dirt and turf courses. The track has an estimated seating capacity of 17,000 with a total attendance capacity of 40,000 guests. Its stables house about 400 horses.

The original hippodrome opened in 1894, but the track was torn down in 1956. The Big A opened in 1959 after a major renovation.

Inside scoop: The racetrack houses the New York Racing Association’s headquarters.

Address: 110-00 Rockaway Blvd., South Ozone Park, and www. nyra.com/aqueduct.

BELMONT PARK Belmont Park is a major thoroughbred racing track. Spread over 445 acres, the facility can host more than 100,000 attendees at a time and is one of the country’s biggest grossing venues. It is world-renown as the host of Belmont Stakes, the Triple Crown’s final leg (after the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes), which takes place every June.

Belmont Park’s main track is 1.5 miles long, and the site stretches from the Queens border to Elmont, Long Island, where it is located. It first opened in 1905 before closing in 1963 and reopening with a grandstand in 1968.

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Address: 2150 Hempstead Tpke., Elmont, and www.nyra.com/ belmont

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Non-gamers can enter the venue without setting foot on the casino floor via the family corridor, Broadway, which leads to various dining options with divergent cuisines and a gift shop.

The food court includes Queens Burger, which was created with casino customers in mind. On the Fifth Avenue level, the signature restaurant, RW Prime Steakhouse and Wine Bar, serves steak and seafood, with private dining rooms available for larger gatherings. In the center of the Times Square Casino, Bar 360 offers free nightly entertainment, and features the largest indoor live-streaming high-definition video screen in Queens.

The Central Park level features 70,000 square feet of event space and gaming. With more than 20,000 square feet, Central Park Casino is the latest addition to the third level with more than 330 video lottery terminals. The 50,000-sq.-ft. space is utilized for events, concerts, and trade shows.

Inside scoop: During the Holiday Season, the casino has the largest tree in Queens. Usually 40-feet-tall, the tree displays more than 1,500 ornaments, including bells, balls, and poinsettias and 400 bows made from 5,400 yards of red velvet and gold lame ribbon plus 6,500 LED lights.

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10 Historic Houses Queens has historical houses from the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries that reflect the borough’s Dutch, German, and English heritages. Some venues offer insights into the borough’s past as a center for religious liberty, a final stop on the Underground Railroad, and a magnet for immigrants.

Others inform on architecture, farming, science, and even incarceration.

BOWNE HOUSE HISTORICAL SOCIETY John Bowne (1657–1695) was an English immigrant who came to New York when it was under Dutch control and called “New Netherlands.” He became a pioneer in the fights for religious liberty and abolitionism.

In 1661, he moved to a small, English-speaking community in Flushing. His house was a meeting spot for Quakers, who practiced their faith despite threats from the government. His residence was allegedly a stop on the Underground Railroad as well. Nine generations of Bownes lived in the wooden-frame English Colonial saltbox until 1945, when they donated the property to the Bowne Historical Society. It is the oldest domicile in Queens. With a pitched roof and three dormers, the museum combines common architectural features from English and Dutch styles. It displays roughly 5,000 objects (furniture, clothes, textiles) that the family acquired over more than three centuries.

There is also a collection of rare books and correspondence that offers insight into the civil and political activities that surrounded the family.

Inside scoop: Though he didn’t sign it, John Bowne was a leading force behind the Flushing Remonstrance, a 1657 petition to the New Netherland’s government requesting freedom to practice Quaker worship. The document is considered the precursor of the freedom of religion provision in the Bill of Rights.

Address: 37-01 Bowne St., Flushing, and www.bownehouse.org.

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structure in continuous use for religious purposes. It is also the second oldest Quaker meeting house in the United States.

The early Quakers did not use headstones until the mid 1820s, so it is difficult to determine all of those who are buried in the graveyard, but it is the final resting place for a number of prominent Quakers. Noted abolitionists William Burling and Matthew Franklin, Samuel Leggett, who founded The New York Gas Light Company, John Murray Jr., who co-founded the Free School Society and The Society for the Manumission of Slaves, are a few.

Inside scoop: There is worship every Sunday at 11 am, and the house is open for tours. All are welcome, but it’s best to call ahead of time to make sure it’ll be open.

Address: 137-16 Northern Blvd., Flushing, and www.nyym.org.

FORT TOTTEN/BAYSIDE HISTORICAL SOCIETY Founded in 1964, the Bayside Historical Society maintains two landmarked properties: the Officers’ Club at Fort Totten Park, where the society is based; and the Lawrence Cemetery, located in a wooded area at the corner of 216th Street and 42nd Avenue.

The Officers’ Club, also known as “The Castle,” boasts a Gothic Revival style. Completed in 1887, the building served as a mess hall and club for the United States Army Corps of Engineers.

The Lawrence Cemetery was granted to the Lawrence family by Dutch Governor Willem Keift of New Amsterdam in 1645. It is the final resting place of Cornelius Van Wyck Lawrence, mayor of New York City from 1834 to 1837.

Inside scoop: Fort Totten Park was an active Army base from 1857 until 1995 and the home to four major Army hospitals since the Civil War. The Fire Department of New York presently controls about one third of the property and the NYC Parks Department controls another third.

Address: 208 Totten Ave., Bayside, and www.baysidehistorical. org and www.forttottenparks.org.

KING MANOR Rufus King (1755-1827) was the youngest signer of the United States Constitution, a senator, an ambassador to Great Britain, and a candidate for president. He was also an early voice in the anti-slavery movement who employed and paid workers rather than practice slavery on his farm in Jamaica.

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From 1805 to 1896, King and his descendants lived in what is now an 11-acre property called “Rufus King Park.” They raised livestock and sowed wheat, barley, potatoes, corn, strawberries, apples, and peaches. Their three-story, three-chimney mansion with clapboard windows is now a museum, displaying furniture, glassware, clothes, musical instruments, toys, ceramics, paintings, and prints.

Inside scoop: Added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974, King Manor hosts numerous seasonal festivals, classical music concerts, and even swearing-in ceremonies for new citizens.

Address: Rufus King Park, in the vicinity of Jamaica and 89th avenues between 150th and 153rd streets, Jamaica, and www. kingmanor.org.

KINGSLAND HOMESTEAD (QUEENS HISTORICAL SOCIETY) The Kingsland Homestead was built in 1785 by original resident Charles Doughty, the son of a wealthy Quaker. The two-story estate became “Kingsland” after Doughty’s son-in-law, Joseph King, a British sea captain, bought the property in 1801.

Kingsland’s first floor includes a 1,350-square-foot space where the society organizes exhibitions and lectures. The secondfloor parlor is designed in a Victorian style with lacework and a plethora of items (i.e. notebooks, eyeglasses) that former inhabitants used. The house has a gambrel roof, a crescentshaped window in a side gable, a Federal-period chimney piece with an iron Franklin stove, and a Dutch-style front door.

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The Queens Historical Society is based in the homestead. The society spearheads educational programs, exhibitions, and a research center. It publishes a quarterly newsletter and offers lectures, programs, and slide presentations on subjects relating more than 300 years of history.

Inside scoop: The house is in Weeping Beech Park. About two acres in size, the park had a 60-foot-high weeping beech from 1847 until 1998. For a long time, the tree had city landmark status and it is believed to be the original source for all weeping beeches in the United States.

Address: 143-35 37th Ave., Flushing, and www. queenshistoricalsociety.org.

LEWIS H. LATIMER HOUSE Lewis Howard Latimer (1848–1928) was an African-American inventor whose innovations in designing carbon filaments ushered in the age of electric light. He also drafted the patent drawings for Alexander Graham Bell’s telephone. Latimer was a self-taught master draftsman, an expert on patent law, a poet, and a painter – in short, a Renaissance man.

The son of slaves, Latimer settled in Flushing, where he helped found the New York Unitarian Church and lived in what is now the Lewis H. Latimer House. The wood frame, two-story residence, which features Queen Anne style architecture, remained in Latimer’s family until 1963. Under threat of demolition in 1988, it was moved to its current location, converted into a museum, and granted city landmark status.

Today, the museum’s public programs call attention to the many contributions to science and technology that Latimer and other African-Americans have made over the centuries.

Inside scoop: The nearby Latimer Gardens, a set of four, 10-story, city-run apartment buildings bordered by 34th and 35th avenues, Linden Place and Leavitt Street in Flushing, are also named after the inventor.

Address: 34-41 137th St., Flushing, and www.latimernow.org.

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The institution once housed a courthouse, a bank, the area’s first library, a sheriff’s office (two vacant jail cells are still there), and various singing societies. Nowadays, the site, which obtained landmark status in 1970, houses a community cultural center offering programs such as karate, piano lessons, lectures, workshops, historical exhibits, a summer concert series, and a resident theater company.

Inside scoop: Poppenhusen opened the first free kindergarten in the United States on July 1, 1870.

Address: 114-04 14th Rd., College Point, and www. poppenhuseninstitute.org.

VANDER-ENDE ONDERDONK HOUSE This house was built by Paulus Vander Ende, a Dutch farmer, in about 1709. The smaller wooden wing was erected much later; in the early 1800s, when the property was purchased by the Onderdonk family.

With federal, state and city landmark status, the house’s features include heavy fieldstone walls, a wooden-shingle gambrel roof, and large brick chimneys. The interior is mainly exposed postand-beam construction with wooden floors. There are double Dutch doors and numerous shuttered windows. In the cellar stands the original fireplace and kitchen that was restored by the Greater Ridgewood Historical Society. On display inside the house are objects found during excavations conducted in the 1970s and 1980s as well as architectural and historical exhibits.

Inside scoop: This is a one of the rare examples of an 18th-century Dutch-American stone farmhouse with a gambrel roof in New York City.

Address: 1820 Flushing Ave., Ridgewood, and www. onderdonkhouse.org.

VOELKER ORTH MUSEUM In the 1890s, German immigrant Conrad Voelcker, who ran a printing business with his brothers, bought his dream house in Flushing. He loved his garden. And so did his daughter, Theresa Voelker (notice spelling change), who married Rudolph Orth, and their daughter, Elisabetha Orth.

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Volker Orth hosts performances, art exhibitions, and workshops throughout the year, Shakespeare in the Garden during the summer, and Oktoberfest Flushing Style: Sauerkraut and Kimchi in the fall.

Inside scoop: A bee colony on site helps to pollinate the flowers and provides a small supply of honey for the museum’s education and family programs and for sale in the fall.

Address: 149-19 38th Ave., Flushing, and www.vomuseum.org.

Editor’s note: Flushing Town Hall is also a landmarked, historic house, but it’s mentioned in the Flushing section.

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FILM Adrien Brody; Al Roker; Barbara Bach; Bernadette Peters; Carol Ann Alt; Carroll O’Connor; Christopher Walken; David Caruso; David Schwimmer; Debi Mazar; Dick Van Patten; Don Rickles; Drea de Matteo; Ethel Merman; Fran Drescher; Francis Ford Coppola; Hank Azaria; Howard Stern; Ja Rule; James Caan; James Cagney; John Leguizamo; John Turturro; Judd Apatow; Lucy Liu; Mae West; Martin Landau; Martin Scorsese; Michael Landon; Patty Duke; Ray Romano; Richard Dreyfuss; Rodney Dangerfield; Susan Sarandon; Tony Bennett; Zoe Saldaña

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12 Nature As mentioned in this guidebook, Flushing Meadows Corona Park is the largest public space in Queens. It’s home to countless forms of wildlife and cultural and recreational gems.

But it’s not alone. The borough has many beautiful public spaces that offer serenity from the hustle-bustle of city life. The following two lists provide more information. The first lists green areas run by nonprofits. The second lists governmentadministered spaces.

ALLEY POND ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER Alley Pond Park is more than 655 acres of trees, water marshes, meadows, hills, and trails. It occupies part of a terminal moraine that was formed by a glacier roughly 15,000 years ago, and features kettle ponds formed by melting ice and natural springs.

In spring, pollen fills the air, and flowers bloom everywhere. In summer, frogs and salamanders sun themselves on tree branches and rocks in the ponds. In fall, birds of all feathers pass through.

And in winter, raccoon tracks can be found in the snow.

The Alley Pond Environment Center is a nonprofit that operates a building where visitors can learn about the local wetlands and trails as well as nature on the whole. The center is dedicated to educating individuals about the environment, protecting and preserving the park, open spaces, and bodies of water, and advocating for sustainable environmental policies and practices.

Inside scoop: The Douglaston Estate Windmill is in Alley Pond Park. Built around 1870, it pumped water to nearby farms. The original windmill was converted into a two-room house in the early 1900s, when the borough’s population spiked. But in 1985, a group of local residents constructed a working replica that pumps fresh water from the ground that the park uses.

Address: 228-06 Northern Blvd., Douglaston, and www. alleypond.com.

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three boroughs (Queens, Brooklyn, and Staten Island) and two states (New Jersey and New York). The entire circuit includes locations for outdoor activities, such as swimming, hiking, camping, boating, and bird-watching.

In Queens, the Jamaica Bay unit stretches from the shoreline below Brooklyn’s Shore Parkway to dozens of uninhabited islands in Jamaica Bay to the Rockaway Peninsula, which leads to the Atlantic Ocean. The Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, one of the best bird-watching areas in the Northeastern United States, is located in this unit. Roughly 9,155 acres, the refuge features salt marshes, woodlands, estuaries, and sand dunes.

A few miles down the road is Jacob Riis Park, a public beach by the Atlantic Ocean that is described in this section. The stretch has a boardwalk and a landmarked bathhouse. The 200-acre Breezy Point Tip is adjacent to Riis Park. Consisting of dunes, marshes, and oceanfront beach, it is a nesting area for many birds, such as the piping glover. During their migrations, different kinds of hawks rest and nest there. Plus, diamondback turtles lay eggs and horseshoe crabs mate in the sand dunes of the Wildlife Refuge at certain times.

QUEENS COUNTY FARM MUSEUM The Queens County Farm Museum is New York City’s largest remaining farmland. In operation since 1697, it also the city’s only working historical farm with livestock, heavy farm machinery, planting fields, and a vineyard. Guided tours and hayrides combine with featured events, such as a children’s carnival, an antique motor show, and a Native American powwow. The roughly 47-acre site also features the restored Cornell Farmhouse, which dates back to the Adriances, a Dutch family that lived there from 1697 to 1808.

Inside scoop: The farm sells wine made from its homegrown vineyard, locally laid eggs, and honey from on-site bees.

Address: 73-50 Little Neck Pkwy., Floral Park, and www. queensfarm.org.

PUBLIC GREEN SPACES Astoria Park offers shoreline access to the East River, views of Manhattan and Randall’s Island, an outdoor pool, and multiple recreational activities, lying below two bridges, the Robert F. Kennedy (formerly Triborough) and Hell Gate. Located at the western end of Ditmars Boulevard and covering about 60 acres, the public space has running tracks, dog runs, skate parks, tennis courts, a track, basketball courts, a bandstand, and many trails. A high-quality ultimate Frisbee game takes place there on Saturday mornings all year.

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Baisley Pond Park is known in the West Indian community as a great place to play cricket. But tennis, handball, and basketball players use the almost 110 acres, too, as do bicycle riders, rollerbladers, joggers, picnickers, and naturalists. Located near the North Conduit Avenue, the grounds also host an annual gospel festival and puppet shows.

Inside scoop: Inside the park, the Sutphin Playground has a sculpture of an American mastodon, an extinct elephant-like animal that recalls the 1850s, when workers dredging the pond found the bones of a mastodon that lived in the area almost 10,000 years ago, just after the end of the last ice age. Plus, the Mother Carter Garden, which is surrounded by an ornamental fence and has seating with views of the pond, memorializes Laura “Mother” Carter (1914-1999), a beloved community leader.

Address: 118-21 Lakeview Blvd., South Jamaica.

Cunningham Park is about 360 acres in total, but it features a 240-acre wildlife preserve consisting of real forest habitat, vernal pools, and kettle ponds. The area has countless sports fields, treelined jogging paths, play areas, and barbecue pits. Named after W. Arthur Cunningham, a World War I veteran who was elected city comptroller in 1933, the park hosts annual events, including shows by the New York Philharmonic and the Metropolitan Opera.

Inside scoop: The park has a 6.5-mile mountain bike trail with a dirt jump park and pump track.

Address: Near the convergence of the Horace Harding Expressway and Grand Central Parkway, bounded by Long Island Expressway, Francis Lewis Boulevard, 210th Street, Hollis Court Boulevard, Hollis Hills Terrace, Avon Road, 193rd Street, Union Turnpike, 199th Street, and Peck Avenue, Fresh Meadows.

Forest Park is a windy and hilly 538 acres with natural hiking and horse-riding paths through what is called “knob and kettle” terrain, thanks in large part to a glacier that passed through about 20,000 years ago. Despite a few years of lumbering and a chestnut blight in 1912, the park is filled with healthy, tall, natural growth, 150-year-old trees (hickories, black cherries, dogwoods) that create canopies. Visitors can explore an abandoned railroad station, a 110-acre, nine-hole golf course, and 108

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two carousels. In the summertime, free concerts are offered at the George Seuffert Bandshell.

Inside scoop: In 1911, an independent Queens branch of the Parks Department, the Overlook, was established. Built in a Spanish-Mission style, this building houses administrative offices. Henry Miller, who wrote Tropic of Cancer (1934), was stationed at the Overlook in the 1920s, when he worked as a grave digger.

Address: Bounded by Myrtle Avenue, Union Turnpike, Park Lane South, Brooklyn-Queens County Line and Park Lane.

Floyd Bennett Field, which straddles the Brooklyn-Queens border, is a former airfield that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Hangar A and Hangar B are often open to the public and display historic aircraft and other exhibits. Some of the hangars have been converted into a sports arena and iceskating rinks.

Address: www.nps.gov/gate.

Fort Tilden, which was established in 1917, is named after Samuel Tilden, who was governor of New York State in 1875 and 1876. It once housed antiaircraft missiles to defend from attack be sea and air.

The fort was decommissioned in 1974 and control was transferred to the National Park Service. It lies by a freshwater pond and a maritime forest and is often used for art exhibitions.

An observatory deck provides breath-taking views of Jamaica Bay, all the way to the Manhattan skyline.

Inside scoop: Two nonprofits – the Rockaway Artist Alliance and the Rockaway Theatre Company – offer programs there.

Address: Vicinity of Rockaway Beach Boulevard in Breezy Point.

Fort Totten Park is actually a preserved Civil War fortress that became a working U.S. Army installation and now provides space for the United States Army Reserve. With more than 60 acres, the area has large fields, dilapidated houses, an old officers’ club, a sports complex, and a public swimming pool.

Patrons can take canoes into the Long Island Sound, explore a fortress, observe migrating birds or play soccer. The park is also a frequent host to special events, and on Halloween, Rangers allow individuals to get spooked at a haunted house in the old water battery.

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Inside scoop: The Bayside Historical Society is located in the former Fort Totten Officers’ Club, which is known as “the Castle.” The venue is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Address: 422 Weaver Rd., Bayside, www.forttottenparks.org.

Gantry Plaza State Park covers 12 acres of shoreline on the borough’s Western coast. With the East River and Midtown Manhattan to the immediate west, the park contains playing fields, fishing piers, a promenade, and outdoor furniture in a site that was once a dock facility with gantry cranes. A 120-footlong and 60-foot-high neon Pepsi-Cola sign adds to the mystical, urban-rural feel. (The soda maker used to operate a bottling plant in the northern portion.)

Inside scoop: The park keeps growing. Recently, LIC Landing was completed in a section to the south of Gantry. With similar spectacular views of the Manhattan skyline, this new public space features a promenade, children’s play area, fields, and an upscale café, COFFEED. A ferry that goes to Manhattan and Brooklyn stops there too.

Address: 4-09 47th Rd., Long Island City, and www.nysparks.com.

Juniper Valley Park stretches over more than 55 acres in the heavily residential Middle Village neighborhood. It offers space for baseball, basketball, bocce, football, handball, soccer, tennis, and track.

It was long a swamp until Arnold Rothstein, the gangster known for fixing the 1919 World Series during the Black Sox Scandal, bought 88 acres for development. He tried to sell the property to the city as an airport during the 1920s, but he was murdered in 1928, probably due to unpaid gambling debts. In 1931, New York City acquired Juniper Swamp from Rothstein’s estate, later converting it into a public park.

Inside scoop: The Pullis Cemetery, which is located near the park off Juniper Boulevard North at 81st Street, has historic landmark status. Thomas Pullis Sr. purchased 32 acres there in 1832 and built the burial ground for his family.

Address: Juniper Boulevard between Lutheran Avenue, 71st Street and Dry Harbor Road.

Kissena Park has nearly 240 acres of winding paths through shady trees, open green space, tennis courts, sports fields, and a fishing pond. The park also has a velodrome for bicycle riders and a public golf course is nearby.

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Inside scoop: The word “Kissena” means “It is cold” in the Chippewa language. However, the Chippewa tribe lives mainly in Wisconsin and never had a large population in Queens.

Address: Bounded by Rose Avenue, Oak Avenue, 164th Street, Booth Memorial Avenue and Kissena Boulevard, Flushing.

Roy Wilkins Recreation Center is named after a civil rights leader who also served as president of the NAACP. In addition to the 425-seat Black Spectrum Theatre (mentioned previously), the park has a four-acre community garden, basketball, handball, and tennis courts, outdoor performance space, and an indoor pool.

Inside scoop: An African-American Hall of Fame is located in the African Courtyard. Inductees include Shirley Chisholm, the first African-American woman elected to Congress, and the park’s namesake, of course.

Location: Vicinity of Merrick Boulevard, 115th Avenue, 116th Avenue, and Baisley Boulevard.

Rufus King Park consists of 11 acres and is home to the King Manor Museum as well as soccer fields, gardens, and tennis courts. It has undergone three major capital projects over the past 30 years to improve the grounds, relocate the bandstand, rebuild the park house, and create new paths, fencing, and benches.

Inside scoop: A steel picket fence displaying the words from the Preamble of the Constitution runs around the museum’s perimeter.

Address: Bounded by Jamaica Avenue, 89th Avenue, 150th Street and 153rd Street.

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St. Mary’s Fine and Performing Arts Program: A Stand Out for Success While other schools are moving away from providing art and enrichment programs for their students, at The Schools of Saint Mary we are enhancing our existing Fine and Performing Arts Programs at both the middle school and high school levels. With a rich tradition in music, theatre and fine arts, St. Mary’s offers dynamic programs in orchestra, general music, chorus, dance, theatre, and fine arts. During the middle school years, students get a taste of the Fine and Performing Arts Program they will have the opportunity to experience once they move on to St. Mary’s High School where the curriculum motivates students to pursue their post-secondary studies in fine and performing arts.

This year marks the 15th anniversary of our Elementary School’s collaboration with The Josephine Foundation. In conjunction with The Foundation, the Fine and Performing Arts Program was developed as curriculum for the High School and made its debut five years ago.

Unlike other schools, St. Mary’s utilizes professional performers and directors. This team of passionate instructors inspires our students with experiences that stimulate their ability to think critically as individuals, and as a community of artists. This formula makes the St. Mary’s Program a stand out for success.

“It is through the disciplines of a properly run performing arts program that young people and adults can reach for and achieve their dreams regardless of their race, creed, or nationality,” said Andrew J. Koslosky, chairman of The Josephine Foundation.

Students are empowered to actively participate in meaningful collaborations with their fellow students and instructors throughout the year. This crossover practice enables students to step outside the box and reach their maximum potential in their performances. Each experience culminates with specific productions and showcase opportunities that places the multi talents of the students in the spotlight whether on stage or in the art gallery. Our programs ensure that students develop a sense of artistic and personal discipline, responsibility and commitment to the arts.

The Schools of Saint Mary feature an N-12 program in a nurturing, Catholic environment.

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