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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 .
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.
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.
The park hosted the 1964 New York World's Fair, which began on April 22, 1964, [477] and ended on October 17, 1965; [478] the site again reverted to park use in 1967. [479] The NYPD's Flushing Meadows precinct was disbanded in 1952, [480] but the Queens traffic division (which had been established to manage traffic during the fair) continued ...
The Unisphere is a spherical stainless steel representation of the Earth at Flushing Meadows–Corona Park in Queens, New York City, United States.The globe was designed by Gilmore D. Clarke for the 1964 New York World's Fair.
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.
The Queens Zoo (formerly the Flushing Meadows Zoo and Queens Wildlife Center) is an 11-acre (4.5 ha) zoo at Flushing Meadows–Corona Park in Queens, New York City, between Grand Central Parkway and 111th Street. The zoo is managed by the Wildlife Conservation Society and is accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA).
Huntley Meadows Park, the largest park operated by the Fairfax County Park Authority (1,452 acres or 588 hectares), is located in the Hybla Valley area of Fairfax County, Virginia, south of the city of Alexandria. The park features a visitor center, a beaver-created wetland with boardwalk, wildlife observation platforms, and an interpretative ...