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Quarry Ballfields
What was here before?For much of the 20th century, this site was occupied by several rowhomes and apartment buildings. Pl...

Queens County Farm Museum
  What was here before?This site was once called Flushing or Vlissingen, was established on land "purchased" from Na...

Queens Malls
Queens Malls cover sixteen traffic islands along Queens Boulevard from 80th Road to 83rd Street, adjacent to Queens Borough Ha...

Queens Valley Playground
Queens Valley is a former name of Kew Gardens Hills, a neighborhood originally known as Head of the Vleigh. The latter name i...

Queens Village Veterans Plaza
Located at the intersection of Springfield Boulevard and Jamaica Avenue, this plaza stands as a memorial to all the American s...

Queensboro Oval
What was here before?This site was part of the land Governor Edmund Andros granted to John Danielson in 1676. After a series o...

Queensbridge “Baby” Park
What was here before?Dr. Thomas Rainey (1824-1910), a resident of Ravenswood, Queens, spent twenty-five years of his life and ...

Queensbridge Park
This park is named for the nearby Queensboro Bridge, which is also known as the Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge or 59th Street Bridg...

Quick Brown Fox Triangle
“The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.” This famous sentence contains every letter of the alphabet, and is...

Quisqueya Playground
This playground’s name honors the large Dominican American community of the surrounding Washington Heights neighborhood....

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