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George Meegan (2 December 1952 – 10 January 2024) was a British adventurer and alternative educator best known for his unbroken walk of the Western Hemisphere from the southern tip of South America to the northernmost part of Alaska at Prudhoe Bay. This journey was 19,019 miles (30,608 km) on foot, completed in 2,426 days [1] (1977–1983 ...
Juniper Valley Park is a 55.247-acre (223,580 m 2) public park located within Middle Village, Queens, New York, United States. The park is bordered by Juniper Boulevard North on the north, Juniper Boulevard South on the south, Lutheran Avenue on the west, and Dry Harbor Road on the east; it is split into two parts by 80th Street.
Alley Pond Park is the second-largest public park in Queens, New York City, occupying 655.3 acres (265.2 ha). The park is bordered to the east by Douglaston, to the west by Bayside, to the north by Little Neck Bay, and to the south by Union Turnpike. The Cross Island Parkway travels north-south through the park, while the Long Island Expressway ...
Forest Park is a park in the New York City borough of Queens. Spanning 543 acres (220 ha), it is the tenth-largest park in New York City and the third-largest in Queens. Acquired between 1895 and 1898, it was originally referred to as Brooklyn Forest Park, since the original owner was the then-independent city of Brooklyn .
42-10 Vernon Boulevard40°45′14″N73°56′59″W / 40.754000°N 73.949778°W / 40.754000; -73.949778. Long Island City. Renaissance and Tudor Revival building constructed in 1892 as the headquarters of the New York Architectural Terra-Cotta Company, the city's sole architectural terracotta manufacturer.
11427, 11428, 11429. Area codes. 718, 347, 929, and 917. Queens Village is a mostly residential middle class neighborhood in the eastern part of the New York City borough of Queens. It is bound by Hollis to the west, Cambria Heights to the south, Bellerose, Queens and Elmont, Nassau County to the east, and Oakland Gardens to the north.
Bus: Q48, Q58, Q64, Q88. 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 in New York City, New York, U.S. It is bounded by I-678 (Van Wyck Expressway) on the east, Grand Central Parkway on the west, Flushing Bay on the north, and Union ...
The city condemned the amusement park site in 1973 due to nuisance complaints. [27] The next year, the industrial park was founded on a site of 550 acres (220 ha). The complex was later rebranded the College Point Corporate Park (CPCP) because there had been few industrial tenants there. [28] Flushing Airport was decommissioned in 1984. [29]