Vote on the Best Parks in Queens
Sunday May 17, 2009
What's your favorite park in Queens? You've seen our picks for the top places to kick it. Now is your chance to weigh in. Click on the park name below to cast your vote.
Your favorite one didn't make the list? Or the worst one? Let us know where and why in the comments.
What's Your Favorite Park in Queens?
1) Flushing Meadows Corona Park
2) Forest Park
3) Roy Wilkens Park
4) Astoria Park
5) Gantry Plaza State Park
6) Baisley Pond Park
7) Alley Pond
8) Kissena Park
9) Juniper Valley Park
10) Cunningham Park
Comments
Worst park in Queens is Flushing Meadows. We live in Forest Hills, and it’s really hard to access the park. It involves crossing wide lanes of speeding traffic. Then, when you get into the park, it constantly floods, is covered in goose droppings, has little shade, is surrounded on both sides by highways that are not blocked off by trees. IT is sad because it could be a great place, in a part of the city that desparetly needs green space. We love Forest Park. Flushing Meadows — ugh!!!
Little Bay Park with its water views and activities
I agree with the comments on Flushing Meadow Park. You have to dodge traffic to get into the park and once you are there it is overcrowded and filthy. On two occasions I have seen mothers change a child’s diaper on a park bench/table and leave the dirty diaper on the bench. A coworker went to the park this weekend and, shockingly, saw a person changing a diaper and leaving it.
The only time to visit this park is in the very early spring or late fall when it is less crowded and clean. Then it is a wonderful space.