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Begin on the sidwalk on the west side of the intersection of College Point Blvd. and Booth Memorial Ave.
o__... ,> /... (*) \(*) Ride north on the sidewalk (mind the poor paving) and make the first left into the park, onto Fowler Path.
Flushing Meadows-Corona Park is currently the second largest park in New York (only behind Pelham Bay Park), though much of the usable land has been given to the MTA, private sport areanas, and other institutions.
o__... ,> /... (*) \(*) Make a slight left onto Avenue of Discovery 0.1 mi. The intersection ahead has car traffic without a stop sign so be careful.
In the 1920's this land was the Corona Ash Dumps (coal-furnaces being the primary source of heat in houses) and was described as "a valley of ashes" in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby.
The area was cleared for the 1939/1940 World's Fair, with much of the refuse being used as fill for the construction of the Van Wyck Expressway, Interboro Parkway and Long Island Expressway.
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