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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 ...
Most of the road in Queens is a bicycle trail from Cunningham Park to Alley Pond Park, part of the Brooklyn–Queens Greenway. It starts at Francis Lewis Boulevard in Cunningham Park. The path runs south, parallel with 199th Street, and crosses a bridge over 73rd Avenue.
Alley Pond Park, Queens - 655 acres (2.65 km 2) [2] Forest Park, Queens - 544 acres (2.20 km 2) [2] While Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge is larger than any of the parks listed, at 9,155 acres (37.05 km 2), [3] it is not ranked since it is a wildlife refuge and not an active-use park.
Alley Pond Park has a standing windmill (built 2005) that is a replica of the Douglaston Manor windmill. The windmill's tower was relocated to Alley Pond Park after being threatened with demolition in November 1986, [1] having been originally situated on Arleigh Road in Douglaston.
The Long Island Motor Parkway provides a bicycle path through Cunningham Park, west to Kissena Park and east to Alley Pond Park, part of the Brooklyn-Queens Greenway. [21] Mountain biking trails run throughout northern areas of the park which include two major sections connected by an overpass that runs across the Clearview Expressway. Trails ...
The state announced a plan to renovate the Long Island Expressway (I-495) in the vicinity of Alley Pond Park and the Cross Island Parkway in 1995. [41] In 2000, Pataki and New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani announced that the segment of I-495 near Alley Pond Park and the Cross Island Parkway, would be rebuilt at a cost of $112 million.
Udalls Cove is a marshland and wetland area located in Queens, New York City, off Little Neck Bay between Douglaston and Little Neck Bay. [1] It is one of the few remaining salt marshes on the North Shore in the Metropolitan area; another being the salt marsh southwest of the cove, at Alley Pond Park. [1]
QUEENS, N.Y. (PIX11) — A brush fire broke out at Alley Pond Park in Queens Wednesday evening. The fire was first reported around 6:45 p.m., according to the FDNY. Firefighters were still working ...