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This playground takes its name from Northern Boulevard, which was originally named Jackson Avenue after John C. Jackson (1809-1889). Jackson was President of the Hunter’s Point, Newtown and Flushing Turnpike Company, which built Jackson Avenue in the early 1860s. In 1921, Jackson Avenue was renamed Northern Boulevard because of its position on the north shore of Queens. Northern Boulevard lies Read more...
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The cooperative housing community of Rochdale Village is bounded by Baisley Boulevard, Bedell Street, 137th Avenue, and Guy R. Brewer Boulevard. Located in the South Jamaica community, Rochdale Village occupies the former site of the Jamaica Racetrack. The Metropolitan Jockey Club opened the track on April 27, 1903 with fifteen thousand persons in attendance. The one-mile, oval track housed thoroughbred Read more...
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The Vietnam Veterans Triangle lies within the Nine Heroes Plaza in the Elmhurst section of Queens. The parkland was first acquired by the City and transferred to Parks in October 1924. Nine Heroes Plaza is a reference to the 14th century French tapestries on display at the Cloisters in Fort Tryon Park. The “Nine Heroes Tapestries” were created around 1385 Read more...
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Neponsit Malls consists of eight landscaped plots located in the center of Rockaway Beach Boulevard. Extending between Beach 140th Street and Jacob Riis Park, the plots were created in 1915 through a Rockaway Beach Boulevard improvement resolution. In 1922, the 20-foot wide malls were placed under Parks’s jurisdiction. Neponsit is a community located on the western side of the Rockaway Read more...
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This playground, located at 92nd Street and 56th Avenue, takes its name from one of the oldest European settlements in Queens. Eight years after the abandonment of the Maspeth colony in 1644, English colonists moved inland to what is now Queens Boulevard and Broadway in 1652. The land for the new colony was formally obtained from three Native Americans named Read more...
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Nathan Weidenbaum (1908-1983) was a longtime Woodside resident and one of the first occupants of the Wynwoode Gardens Homes where he moved in 1936. At the time, the area was lacking many basic amenities such as street signs and lampposts, so Weidenbaum formed the Wynwoode Gardens Homeowners Association to bring civic improvements to the area. He did much to advance Read more...
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This park honors Albert Montbellier (1899-1963). Born in Manhattan, Montbellier was a dedicated civic worker devoted to his Queens neighborhood for over 35 years. He was a leader in the fight against air pollution and aviation noise and served on the Borough President’s Committee on Aviation Problems. He organized the Springfield Gardens Taxpayers and Citizens Association and was its president Read more...
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This park honors the veterans of Middle Village who fought in World War I (1914-1918), World War II (1939-1945), Korea (1950-1953), and Vietnam (1964-1975). Middle Village, located in west central Queens, is bounded by Eliot Avenue, Woodhaven Boulevard, Cooper Avenue, the Long Island Railroad, and the Lutheran Cemetery. A small portion of the neighborhood, between Woodhaven Boulevard and Richmond Hill, Read more...
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Maurice A. FitzGerald (1897-1951) was born in Brooklyn and attended Boys’ High School and the New Lots Evening High School. He began his career as a civil servant at the age of fourteen, working as a postal clerk. In the 1920s FitzGerald became the president of the South Side Allied Civic Association and championed the construction of John Adams High Read more...
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This playground honors Marie Curie (1867-1934), the noted scientist and first person to win two Nobel Prizes. Maria Skolodowska-Curie was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1867. She moved to Paris, France in 1891 to study at the Sorbonne (Paris University). Soon after, she joined a research laboratory and in 1898, she and her husband Pierre expanded on Henri Becquerel’s discovery Read more...
