Flushing Meadows-Corona Park

Park · Queens

Flushing Meadows-Corona Park stretches through northern Queens along the Flushing River and is the largest park in the borough.

  • 1.98 square miles
  • 153 street corners
  • 2 subway stations
  • 15 bus routes

In the early 1900s its marshes became an ash dump made famous by The Great Gatsby, until the site was rebuilt for the 1939 World's Fair; a second fair followed in 1964, and the park opened in its present form in 1967. Run by NYC Parks, it is known for the Unisphere, the Queens Museum in a 1939 fair building that housed the United Nations from 1946 to 1950, the Queens Zoo and the tennis center that hosts the U.S. Open.

Sources: Flushing Meadows–Corona Park (Wikipedia); Flushing Meadows Corona Park (The Cultural Landscape Foundation); About (Queens Museum).

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Flushing Meadows-Corona Park borders ten areas, and Van Wyck Expressway holds more of its corners than any other street, 35 of 153.

Street map of Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, Queens, outlined among Forest Hills, Flushing-Willets Point, Kew Gardens Hills and Corona, with its paths, the streets around it and its two subway stations.Flushing-Willets PointQueensboro HillKew Gardens HillsMount Hebron & Cedar Grove CemeteriesJamaica Hills-BriarwoodForest HillsKew GardensCoronaEast ElmhurstNorth Corona
  • Flushing Meadows-Corona Park
  • A neighboring area
  • Park
  • A station in the list
  • Another station

Neighborhood areas and streets: NYC Department of City Planning. Parks: NYC Parks. Stations: MTA.

Neighboring areas

Subway stations

  • Mets-Willets Point lines 7
  • Kew Gardens-Union Tpke lines E F accessible

Getting around

Two subway stations and buses on 15 routes stop in or at the edge of Flushing Meadows-Corona Park.

  • 2 subway stations
  • 1 of them listed by the MTA as fully accessible
  • 10 local bus routes
  • 5 express bus routes

Local bus routes

  • Q37
  • Q45
  • Q46
  • Q48
  • Q58
  • Q60
  • Q64
  • Q90
  • Q98
  • T321

Express bus routes

  • QM18
  • QM63
  • QM64
  • QM65
  • QM68

Safety record

Between 2021 and 2025, its corners averaged fewer police-reported crashes than the average Queens corner.

  • 270 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 1.8 a corner, on average
  • 5.2 the average Queens corner
  • 119 corners with a clean record

Signal or safety changes on City record, at two of its corners

Accessible pedestrian signals
1
Safety Improvement Projects
1

Camera tickets

In 2025 its corners had more red-light camera tickets than school-zone speed or bus-lane tickets.

  • 2,804 red-light camera tickets at one corner
  • 0 school-zone speed camera tickets
  • 0 bus-lane camera tickets

Parks and landmarks

Parkland
813.9 acres of Flushing Meadows Corona Park, as NYC Parks maps it within the area's boundary
Designated landmark
The Unisphere

Streets and trees

Trees
9,991 in NYC Parks' records, most often pin oak, London planetree and eastern white pine
Street with the most corners
Van Wyck Expressway, with 35 of the area's 153

Bike share and public art

By the station list of October 3, 2026, six bike-share stations stand in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park. The City's public art inventory lists 12 works in the area, among them New York State Marine Amphitheater Bas-Reliefs (1939), Column of Jerash (1964) and Forms in Transit (1964).

  • 6 bike-share stations
  • 12 works of public art

Street corners

How the figures above are measured: Methodology.