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Flushing Meadows–Corona Park was created as the site of the 1939 New York World's Fair and also hosted the 1964 New York World's Fair. Following the 1964 fair, the park fell into disrepair, although some improvements have taken place since the 1990s and 2000s. Flushing Meadows–Corona Park retains much of the layout from the 1939 World's Fair.
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Park Meadows is an enclosed shopping mall in Lone Tree, Colorado, that includes a gross leasable area of 1,576,618 square feet (150,000 m 2). [1] Opened on August 30, 1996, the mall features JCPenney , Macy's , Dillard's , Nordstrom , and Dick's Sporting Goods .
A map showing major greenspaces in New York City: 1) Central Park, 2) Van Cortlandt Park, 3) Bronx Park, 4) Pelham Bay Park, 5) Flushing Meadows Park, 6) Forest Park, 7) Prospect Park, 8) Floyd Bennett Field, 9) Jamaica Bay, A) Jacob Riis Park and Fort Tilden, B) Fort Wadsworth, C) Miller Field, D) Great Kills Park Central Park is the most visited urban park in the United States.
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Flushing Meadows–Corona Park, a former ash dump in the New York City borough of Queens, was used for the 1939/1940 New York World's Fair. At the conclusion of the fair, it was used as a park. [2] [3] The Flushing Meadows site was selected in 1959 for the 1964 New York World's Fair. [4]
The Queens Museum is located in the New York City Pavilion at Flushing Meadows–Corona Park, [4] designed by architect Aymar Embury II for the 1939 World's Fair. [4] [5] The fair was first announced in 1935, [6] and engineering consultant J. Franklin Bell drew up preliminary plans for the fairground the next year, including a structure for the New York City government. [7]
Wooded meadows (also named wood-meadows, park meadows, etc.) are ecosystems in temperate forest regions. They are sparse natural stands with a regularly mowed herbaceous layer . While frequent throughout Europe during the Medieval period and before, wooded meadows have largely disappeared.