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The park contains the Queens Giant, a tulip poplar (Liriodendron tulipifera) that is the tallest carefully measured tree in New York City and possibly the oldest living thing in the New York metropolitan area. The Alley Pond Environmental Center (APEC), with a library, museum and animal exhibits, is located in the northern part of the park, on ...
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 ...
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.
Douglaston Manor Windmill (c.1870s-1988) was a Dutch windmill built in Littleneck, New York to pump water for farming. Alley Pond Park has a standing windmill (built 2005) that is a replica of the Douglaston Manor windmill.
Along the western waterfront is Alley Pond Park, a 635-acre (2.57 km 2) wildlife and bird sanctuary, and home to the Queens Giant, the oldest known tree (and living thing) in New York City. To the east along the water is Udalls Cove , a 90-acre (360,000 m 2 ) wildlife sanctuary .
Tracts of trees that have been characterized as old-growth forest include the Thain Family Forest at the New York Botanical Garden (largest in the city), as well as parts of Hunter Island in Pelham Bay Park, Midwood Forest in Prospect Park, Northwest Woods in Van Cortlandt Park, Shorakapok Preserve in Inwood Hill Park, Alley Pond Park and ...
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]
Cortlandt Alley, 2022. Cortlandt Alley is an alley in Lower Manhattan, New York City, which is often used as a filming location.Filming is not allowed in many of New York City's alleys, so Cortlandt Alley appears in many movies and TV shows, [1] [2] [3] including Crocodile Dundee, 9½ Weeks and Boardwalk Empire. [4]