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Kissena Lake was part of a watercourse called Kissena Creek, previously known as Mill Creek or Ireland Mill Creek, which ran east-to-west through what are now Kissena Park and Kissena Corridor Park. [19]: 109 [22]: 97−101 The creek began at a swamp in the modern Kew Gardens Hills and Pomonok areas south of Kissena Park.
The park is located between Juniper and Geranium Avenues on Colden Street. It is part of the larger Kissena Corridor Park. In that same year the park was formally named Playground for All Children. In 1978 the government spent $351,000 for a project which allowed the park to be accessible to children regardless of physical ability.
The creek then travels mostly north and west, largely flowing beneath Kissena Park Golf Course, Kissena Park, Kissena Corridor Park, and Queens Botanical Garden, before merging with the Flushing River in Flushing Meadows–Corona Park. [1] The name "Kissena" comes from the Chippewa language term for "it is cold", "cold place", or "cool water ...
Kissena Corridor Park is a 100-acre (0.40 km 2) park which connects two separate corridors, adjoining Flushing Meadows–Corona Park to Kissena Park. It contains a baseball field and a playground called Rachel Carson Playground. [125] Bowne Park is an 11-acre (45,000 m 2) park developed on the former estate of New York City Mayor Walter Bowne ...
Kissena Creek, known historically as Ireland Mill Creek, is a right-bank tributary of the Flushing River, which begins in what is now Pomonok/Kew Gardens Hills. The creek is now largely buried, running through Kissena Park, Kissena Corridor Park, and Queens Botanical Garden.
Prior to the 1964–1965 New York World's Fair, the western portion of Kissena Corridor Park between Lawrence Street / College Point Boulevard and Main Street adjacent to Flushing Meadows Park was leased to the World's Fair Corporation, along with most of Flushing Meadows.
The fairground would include the 1939 World's Fair site and a part of the nearby Kissena Corridor Park. [33] The bid required approval from the United States Congress and the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE), the French organization that was in charge of approving world's fairs. [34]
Queens Botanical Garden and Kissena Corridor Park between Dahlia and 56th Avenues [4] [11] NewYork–Presbyterian/Queens (formerly Booth Memorial Hospital and New York Hospital Queens), part of the NewYork–Presbyterian Healthcare System, at Booth Memorial Avenue. [11] Several additional buildings are located farther south. [4]