The Flushing Meadows Carousel is a carousel located in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in the New York City borough of Queens. It contains four rows of figures, including 64 jumping horses, 7 standing horses, 1 menagerie animal (a lion), and 2 chariots. It was created to serve patrons of the 1964 New York World's Fair by combining two earlier carousels, both of which were carved in Coney Island in the first decade of the twentieth century by renowned carver Marcus Illions. During the fair, it stood on a nearby site within the park, and it was moved to its present site in 1968, where it has remained in service ever since.In 2016 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.Coney Island predecessorsThe two predecessor carousels were the Feltman’s Carousel and the Stubbman Carousel, both of which were created for amusement operators in Coney Island. 47 horses and the frame are from the Stubbman Carousel, and 24 horses are from the Feltman’s Carousel.While Coney Island has seen resurgence since 2000, it had been busy during the Great Depression and had over twenty carousels spinning at once. The Feltman's Carousel had a restaurant and beer garden that occupied the site where the Luna Park currently sits, approximately between Jones Walk and West 10th Street. The carousel was indoors but faced Surf Avenue. The “Flying Horses” catalogue issued in 1970 by Rol and Jo Summit noted that some of the horses on Feltman’s carousel were left over from an earlier Looff carousel that caught fire, probably around 1899 or 1900. Feltman's carousel is regarded by some as Marcus Illions' masterpiece.
Our Lady requests for Vigils of Atonement - Eve of the Feast Days (7:00-10 PM) & Sunday Holy Hour for Priests (10:30am). Our Lady of the Roses, Mary Help of Mothers Shrine is an Apparition site of Our Lady and Our Lord Jesus’ appearances at the old St. Robert Bellarmine Roman Catholic Church in Bayside, Queens, New York beginning, June 18, 1970 to the late Veronica Lueken, (July 12,1923- Aug 3, 1995), (named ‘Veronica of the Cross’). Veronica, of Bayside NY was a faithful Roman Catholic, wife and mother of 5, and attended St. Robert Bellarmine Church, Bayside, NY. Our Blessed Mother requested 3 hour Vigils of prayer & atonement on the Eve of the major Feast Days, and also Sunday Holy Hours for priests, relocated in 1975 to Flushing Meadows Park, at the site of Vatican Pavilion, behind the Theatre, Flushing, Queens, NY. Our Lady called Her Sacred Grounds, a Center of Atonement and chose NY and named Her Shrine Our Lady of the Roses, Mary Help of Mothers. The roses mean ‘the souls and preservation of life eternal’. Abortion was legalized in the State of NY July 1, 1971. Over 300 messages from Heaven for the world and the Church were given through Veronica a chosen instrument and messenger for Heaven. Veronica was a voice-box for Our Lady and Jesus and the personages of Heaven receiving the messages from 1970 to 1994 which were audio-taped and printed. Graces in abundance, countless conversions and miraculous doctor attested cures have been received by many throughout the world to ‘make the road easier for the bishop’. Many miraculous photos and miracles and signs were witnessed. Our Lady requests that the clergy conduct the Vigils of atonement and build a Basilica and Carmel & monastery in Bayside where a miraculous spring of curative waters will erupt. St Theresa prepared Veronica in 1968-69 for the mission and in 1970 Our Lady asked Veronica go her Pastor to prepare for Her first visit, June 18, 1970. However, the faithful pilgrims continued the Vigils of atonement with Veronica since 1970 to the present. Veronica’s pastor and Bishop Francis Mugavero did not accept Heaven’s mission. Our Lady still awaits a full official Church Investigation and Review by the local Bishop of the Diocese of Brooklyn who Our Lady said ‘will receive his sign in shock’. The Vigils are conducted by lay pilgrims and the mailroom by lay workers. Contact the Shrine for free information: the full messages on CD Rom, the medal of Our Lady of the Roses, blessed Rose Petals & Vigil schedule, messages, directives, testimonials and sacramentals . Let us light our candles with Our Lady. ‘Pray the Rosary, wear the Brown Scapular.’ Read all the messages at www.OurLadyoftheRoses.org [Please note: We are not affilitated with other organizations, websites or pages using our name and writings.]
Louis Armstrong Stadium is a tennis stadium of the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center and is one of the venues of the U.S. Open, the last of each year's four Grand Slam tournaments. The Center is located in Flushing Meadows–Corona Park, in the New York City borough of Queens. Armstrong was the main stadium before Arthur Ashe Stadium opened in 1997, and is now the No. 2 stadium. It is named after the noted jazz musician Louis Armstrong, who lived nearby until his death in 1971.HistoryThe stadium was originally built as the Singer Bowl for the 1964 New York World's Fair, and hosted special events and concerts afterwards. In the early 1970s, the United States Tennis Association was looking for a new place to host the U.S. Open as relations with the West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills, which had hosted the tournament, were breaking down. The USTA was initially unable to find a sufficient site, but the association's incoming president, W.E. Hester saw the old Singer Bowl from the window of an airplane flying into LaGuardia Airport. The old, long rectangular stadium was heavily renovated and divided into two venues, becoming the square Louis Armstrong Stadium, with the remaining third becoming the attached Grandstand, the third largest stadium at the US Open, with a seating capacity of about 6,000.
Le stade Arthur-Ashe est le principal court de tennis de l'USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center situé au sein du parc Flushing Meadows dans le borough du Queens à New York. Ce complexe de tennis est connu pour accueillir l'US Open de tennis, le dernier grand chelem de l'année (dernière semaine d'août et première semaine de septembre. Le stade est nommé en référence au joueur de tennis Arthur Ashe qui remporte le premier US Open de l'
Arthur Ashe Stadium is a tennis stadium located in the Queens borough of New York City. As part of the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, it is the main stadium of the US Open tennis tournament, the fourth and final Grand Slam tennis tournament of the calendar year — and is the largest tennis-specific stadium in the world (by capacity), with a capacity of 23,771.Located within Flushing Meadows-Corona Park — a reclaimed site that had previously served as a world's fair site, prior to that Manhattan's coal ash dump and prior to that a natural wetland — the original stadium design had not included a roof. After suffering successive years of event delays from inclement weather, a new lightweight retractable roof was completed in 2016.The stadium is named after Arthur Ashe, winner of the 1968 inaugural US Open, the first in which professionals could compete.