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Queens Zoo, Corona NY | Nearby Businesses


53-51 111th St
Corona, NY 11368

3512-3337

The Queens Zoo is an 18acre zoo located in Flushing Meadows – Corona Park in the New York City borough of Queens. The zoo is part of an integrated system of four zoos and one aquarium managed by the Wildlife Conservation Society in partnership with the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, and is accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA).HistoryConstructed on the site of the 1964 New York World's Fair and opened in 1968, it is the first to be designed from the start as a cageless zoo. Robert Moses turned the first shovel full of earth for the new construction on August 20, 1966, and cut the ceremonial ribbon to the new 18acre "Flushing Meadows Zoo" a bit more than two years later on October 26, 1968.The zoo's aviary is a geodesic dome designed by Thomas C. Howard of Synergetics, Inc. and used during the 1964 Fair. The dome was originally designed as the fair's major indoor assembly hall, with no indoor supports blocking anyone's view, and repurposed for the 1965 season as a tribute to Winston Churchill after he died in 1964. The 175ft diameter dome was one of the largest single-layer structures of its time. It was dismantled and stored after the fair, and was later reassembled in its current location with a mesh netting covering instead of the solid tent of the original dome.

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Louis Armstrong Stadium
Distance: 0.5 mi Competitive Analysis
FLUSHING Mdws
New York, NY 11355

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.

Lefrak City Apartments
Distance: 0.8 mi Competitive Analysis
9830 57th Ave
Corona, NY 11368

Shea Stadium
Distance: 0.8 mi Competitive Analysis
123-01 Roosevelt Avenue, Flushing, NY 11368
New York, NY 11368

(718) 507-6387

Shea Stadium ) was a stadium in Flushing Meadows–Corona Park, Queens, New York City. Built as a multi-purpose stadium, it was the home park of Major League Baseball's New York Mets from 1964 to 2008, as well as the New York Jets football team from 1964 to 1983.Shea Stadium was named in honor of William A. Shea, the man who was most responsible for bringing National League baseball back to New York. It was demolished in 2009 to create additional parking for the adjacent Citi Field, the current home of the Mets.

N Y City
Distance: 0.9 mi Competitive Analysis
6435 102nd St
Rego Park, NY 11375

(718) 699-1885

103rd Street – Corona Plaza (IRT Flushing Line)
Distance: 0.9 mi Competitive Analysis
103-13 41st Ave
Corona, NY 11368

103rd Street–Corona Plaza is a local station on the IRT Flushing Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of 103rd Street and Roosevelt Avenue, it is served by the 7 train at all times.HistoryThis station opened on April 21, 1917, as Alburtis Avenue, as the easternmost station of an extension of the Flushing line past Queensboro Plaza. It was later renamed 104th Street, giving the possibility of a sealed exit at the north end, before taking its current name of 103rd Street–Corona Plaza. This station still contains signs, which have been covered, showing Alburtis Avenue. This station was the eastern terminal for the joint BMT and IRT services on the line until the extension to 111th Street opened on October 13, 1925.The platforms at 103rd Street were extended in 1955–1956 to accommodate 11-car trains..Station layoutThis elevated station has three tracks and two side platforms. The center track is used by the rush hour peak direction express service. Both platforms have beige windscreens and brown canopies supported by green frames and support columns in the center and green waist-high steel fences at both ends. The station names are in the standard black plates in white lettering, though some lampposts at both ends have their original white signs in black letting.

US Open
Distance: 0.4 mi Competitive Analysis
USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center,
New York, NY 11355

(718) 760-6200

The United States Open Tennis Championships is a hardcourt tennis tournament. The tournament is the modern version of one of the oldest tennis championships in the world, the U.S. National Championship, for which men's singles was first contested in 1881. Since 1987, the US Open has been chronologically the fourth and final tennis major comprising the Grand Slam each year; the other three, in chronological order, are the Australian Open, the French Open and Wimbledon.The US Open is held annually, starting on the last Monday in August, and lasting for two weeks into September, with the middle weekend coinciding with the Labor Day holiday. The main tournament consists of five event championships: men's and women's singles, men's and women's doubles, and mixed doubles, with additional tournaments for senior, junior, and wheelchair players. Since 1978, the tournament has been played on acrylic hard courts at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows–Corona Park, Queens, New York City. The US Open is owned and organized by the United States Tennis Association (USTA), a not-for-profit organization. Net proceeds from ticket sales, sponsorships, and television deals are used to promote the development of tennis in the United States.

Rego PARK Center
Distance: 1.1 mi Competitive Analysis
96-05 Queens Blvd
Rego Park, NY 11374

(718) 275-2695

Flushing Meadows Carousel
Distance: 0.0 mi Competitive Analysis
111th St & 55th Ave
New York, NY 11368

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.

N Y City Environmental Protection Dept
Distance: 1.0 mi Competitive Analysis
Junction Blvd
Elmhurst, NY 11373

(718) 595-6600

Ecuadorian Civic Committee of New York
Distance: 0.9 mi Competitive Analysis
4112 102nd St
Corona, NY 11368

(718) 476-3832

N Y City
Distance: 0.8 mi Competitive Analysis
4115 104th St
Corona, NY 11368

(718) 396-1235

Club Deportivo Y Cultural Hermanos Unidos De Queen
Distance: 1.0 mi Competitive Analysis
3739 103rd St
Corona, NY 11368

Cedar Grove Cemetery
Distance: 0.9 mi Competitive Analysis
13416 Horace Harding Expy Ste 1
Flushing, NY 11367

(718) 939-2041

Queens Community House - Teen Outreach "Hot Spots" Program
Distance: 0.6 mi Competitive Analysis
108-25 62nd Dr
Forest Hills, NY 11375

(718) 592-5757 Ext 251

Iprhe Corona Senior Center
Distance: 0.7 mi Competitive Analysis
108-74 Roosevelt Ave
Corona, NY 11368-2539

(718) 639-2000

Lefrak Organization
Distance: 0.8 mi Competitive Analysis
9728 57th Ave
New York, NY 11368

(718) 271-0193

Lefrak City Family Care P.C
Distance: 0.8 mi Competitive Analysis
9815 Horace Harding Expy, Ste 1K
Corona, NY 11368-4283

(718) 699-8500

Park Plaza Owners Corp
Distance: 1.0 mi Competitive Analysis
6125 97th St
Rego Park, NY 11374-1248

(718) 393-0028

Grover Cleveland Tenants Corpo
Distance: 1.1 mi Competitive Analysis
6738 108th St
Forest Hills, NY 11375

(718) 261-3070

Y M C A
Distance: 1.0 mi Competitive Analysis
5801 136th St
Flushing, NY 11355-5204

(718) 353-7810

Local business Near Queens Zoo

Terrace On The Park
Distance: 0.1 mi Competitive Analysis
52 11 111th Street
Flushing, NY 11368

(718) 592-5000

Terrace On The Park
Distance: 0.1 mi Competitive Analysis
5211 111th St
Corona, NY 11368-3324

(718) 592-5000

Queens Zoo NY Zoological Society
Distance: 0.1 mi Competitive Analysis
5351 111th St
New York, NY 11368

(718) 271-6241

Flushing Meadow Park Queens Zoo
Distance: 0.1 mi Competitive Analysis
53-51 111th St
Corona, NY 11368

Terrance on the Park Ballroom Penthouse Suite
Distance: 0.2 mi Competitive Analysis
5211 111th Street
New York, NY 11368

Top Notch Music Productions
Distance: 0.2 mi Competitive Analysis
5211 111th St
Corona, NY 11368

(718) 592-2800

Queens Museum
Distance: 0.2 mi Competitive Analysis
Queens Museum New York City Building Flushing Meadows Corona Park Queens, NY 11368
Corona, NY 11368

The Queens Museum, formerly the Queens Museum of Art, is an art museum and educational center located in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in the borough of Queens in New York City, United States. The museum is housed in the New York City Building, which was built for the 1939 New York World's Fair, and which then hosted the United Nations General Assembly from 1946 to 1950. The museum itself was founded in 1972, and has, among its permanent exhibitions, the Panorama of the City of New York, a scale model of the five boroughs built for the 1964 New York World's Fair.The Queens Museum has focused on outreach and access for a wide range of audiences, and is known for international contemporary art exhibitions that reflect the cultural diversity of the borough. The museum’s Education Department is the first in America to employ art therapists in a dedicated, fully accessible classroom, while the Public Events department has hired community organizers to work on local improvement initiatives. The Queens Museum is, in addition to a fine arts collecting museum, also a historical site, community center, and educational classroom.Building historyThe Queens Museum is located in the New York City Building, the historic pavilion designed by architect Aymar Embury II for the 1939 World’s Fair. From 1946 to 1950, the pavilion was the temporary home of the United Nations General Assembly, and was the site of numerous defining moments in the UN’s early years, including the creation of UNICEF, and the partitions of both Korea and Palestine.

Flushing Meadow Park
Distance: 0.2 mi Competitive Analysis
11101 Corona Ave
Corona, NY 11355

(718) 760-6565

Fountain of the Planets Flushing Meadows park
Distance: 0.2 mi Competitive Analysis
11101 Corona Ave
Corona, NY 11368

Suarez Liliana
Distance: 0.2 mi Competitive Analysis
56-12 111th St
Corona, NY 11368-4036

(718) 760-1066

Queens Theater in the Park
Distance: 0.2 mi Competitive Analysis
14 United Nations Avenue South, Flushing Meadows, Corona Park
Queens, NY 11368

(718) 760-0064

Queens Theatre in the Park
Distance: 0.2 mi Competitive Analysis
14 United Nations Avenue South
New York, NY 11355

(718) 760-0064

The Queens Theatre in the Park is an American community theatre, located in the Queens borough of New York City, New York.HistoryAdapted from the former Theaterama at the 1964 New York World's Fair, the theater was part of Philip Johnson's (then six million dollar) construction project that also included observation towers and an open-air pavilion called the "Tent of Tomorrow". The theater was originally decorated with the artworks including those of Andy Warhol and Robert Indiana. The site had also hosted the 1939 New York World's Fair.The theater is next to the Unisphere at Flushing Meadows–Corona Park, an area that also includes Citi Field, the Queens Museum of Art, and the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center.Johnson and Richard Foster designed the original theater. The audience stood and viewed a travelog of New York State projected on screens lining the inside of the circular room. The showing of a cycloramic (360 degrees) film about New York State was a tribute to the world fair's host city.

Reales Esther
Distance: 0.2 mi Competitive Analysis
10839 53rd Ave
Corona, NY 11368-3313

(718) 305-3192

Audio Trend
Distance: 0.2 mi Competitive Analysis
11072 Corona Ave
Corona, NY 11368-4029

(718) 271-4304

Michael Bram
Distance: 0.2 mi Competitive Analysis
11072 Corona Ave
Corona, NY 11368-4029

(800) 720-2557

RegO Park Nursing Home
Distance: 0.2 mi Competitive Analysis
11126 Corona Ave
Corona, NY 11368-4027

(718) 592-6400

New York State Pavilion
Distance: 0.2 mi Competitive Analysis
14 United Nations Ave South
Flushing, NY 11368

Multi Piping
Distance: 0.3 mi Competitive Analysis
10847 52nd Ave
Corona, NY 11368

(718) 699-3542

Holiday Inn
Distance: 0.3 mi Competitive Analysis
11310 Corona Ave
Corona, NY 11368-4021

(718) 699-0094