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The Flushing Meadows Corona Park Aquatics Center and Ice Rink, also known as the Flushing Meadows Corona Park Aquatics Center or Flushing Meadows Natatorium, is a 110,000-square-foot (10,000 m 2) facility in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, Queens, New York City, with an Olympic-sized pool and an NHL-standard rink.
The $66.3 million Flushing Meadows Corona Park Aquatics Center, encompassing an Olympic-sized public indoor pool and an NHL regulation-sized skating rink, opened in 2008. The facility is the largest recreation complex in any New York City park, at 110,000 square feet (10,000 m 2 ). [ 134 ]
Inside Flushing Meadows–Corona Park 40°44′47″N 73°50′41″W / 40.746426°N 73.844819°W / 40.746426; -73.844819 ( Unisphere and Reflecting Flushing Meadows–Corona Park
The site of the 1939 World's Fair, Flushing Meadows–Corona Park in Queens, was originally a natural wetland straddling the Flushing River [3] before becoming an ash dump in the early 20th century. [4] New York City Parks Commissioner Robert Moses first conceived the idea of developing a large park in Flushing Meadows in the 1920s. [5]
There is one outdoor public pool for every 38,000 people in America — from 34,000 in 2015 — according to the National Recreation and Park Association.
The New York Daily News wrote in 2012 that the remaining structures from the fair "have provided Flushing Meadows–Corona Park with some of its most striking structures". [378] Preserved at the center of the park is the Unisphere, which is a New York City designated landmark. [379]
The current City Park pool serves so many uses, including lap swimming (both 50 meters and 25 yards), water walking, fitness classes, deep water diving, water polo, water play, sunbathing, baby ...
A new era of the City Park Pool is near, complete with six swimming lanes and a diving area. The Iowa City City Council approved the $18.4 million plan for the 75-year-old pool's redesign on ...