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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 .
Forest Hills is bordered by two of the largest parks in Queens managed by the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation: the 1,255 acres (5.08 km 2) Flushing Meadows–Corona Park, which is the site of two World's Fairs (in 1939 and 1964) and the iconic Unisphere; [89] as well as the 544 acres (2.20 km 2) Forest Park. [90]
The 67th Avenue station is a local station on the IND Queens Boulevard Line of the New York City Subway.Located at the intersection of 67th Avenue and Queens Boulevard in Forest Hills, Queens, it is served by the M train on weekdays, the R train at all times except nights, and the E and F trains during late nights.
Myrtle Avenue is a 8.1-mile-long (13.0 km) street that runs from Duffield Street in Downtown Brooklyn to Jamaica Avenue in Richmond Hill, Queens, in New York City, United States. [1] Myrtle is a main thoroughfare through the neighborhoods of Fort Greene , Clinton Hill , Bedford-Stuyvesant , Bushwick , Ridgewood , and Glendale .
In the 1890s, on the north side of Myrtle Avenue from what is now 83rd Street to Woodhaven Boulevard, Schmidt's Woods, Glendale Schuetzen Park, Greater New York Park and Casino, and Tivoli Park—all picnic parks—opened. On the south side of Myrtle Avenue from 88th Place to Woodhaven Boulevard were El Dorado Park, Emerald Park and Florida Park.
The park contains the largest continuous oak forest in Queens. [60] Inside the park, the Forest Park Carousel was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004. [38] The park also contains playgrounds, [61] Strack Pond, [62] a barbecue area, [63] a bandshell, [64] a nature center, [65] a dog run, [66] and hiking trails.
Richmond Hill is a commercial and residential neighborhood located in the southeastern section of the New York City borough of Queens.The area borders Kew Gardens and Forest Park to the north, Jamaica and South Jamaica to the east, South Ozone Park to the south, and Woodhaven and Ozone Park to the west.
Forest Hills Eastern end, Jamaica Avenue Ridgewood, Queens. Metropolitan Avenue is a major east-west street in Queens and northern Brooklyn, New York City. Its western end is at the East River in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and the eastern end at Jamaica Avenue in Jamaica, Queens. The avenue was constructed in 1816 as the Williamsburgh and Jamaica ...