"Bicycle Rentals" Traditional Geocache
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What better way to checkout the 1,255 acres of Flushing Meadows
Corona Park than to bike it. If you don’t have your own bike no
worries the coordinates will take you the Bicycle Rental place as
well as the cache. GPSr had a 17 foot accuracy. As always watch out
for muggles. BYOP
Flushing Meadow Corona Park is one of the greatest places in New
York City. It has become the keystone park of Queens and a
recreation and cultural hub for the region; yet, it was once just a
dusty wasteland, "a valley of ashes" as F. Scott Fitzgerald dubbed
it in the Great Gatsby. Its poetic, phoenix-like transformation
from ash dump to oasis was driven by Queens' residents, the City
and 1939 and 1965 World's Fair held in this park. These fairs put
this park on the world's stage, and it has stayed there, hosting
the United Nations General Assembly for five years, three baseball
World Seres at Shea Stadium, and the U.S. Open.
More than a fairground and a site of major athletic competitions,
this park is used every day by people from the entire region.
People come to play soccer on the new turf fields, to stroll along
the Flushing Bay promenade, to enjoy the sounds of a summer
concert, to visit one of the park's outstanding cultural
institutions, or simply to relax in a beautiful garden.
Today, Flushing Meadows Corona Park finds itself in the midst of an
exciting and historic period. A comprehensive multiyear,
multimillion-dollar capital program, which began in 1987, is well
underway. To date, the Queens Wildlife Center, the Queens Museum of
Art, Theatre in the Park, three dinosaur theme playgrounds, four
new highway entrances and more have been reconstructed. Of course,
the park remains a haven for the millions that play, picnic, read,
relax, and bathe in the sun.
Future projects include the construction of a state of the art
Recreation center and new indoor pool and ice rink.
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