The main focus for visitors to Queens should be Corona, the neighborhood just south of LaGuardia and the East River offshoot called Flushing Bay. Here you’ll find a wide corridor of greenery centred on Flushing Meadows, where a nearly 140-foot-high (43-meter) steel globe called the Unisphere (top) marks the area where two World’s Fairs – in 1939 and 1964 – were held (I’m dating myself here, but one of my earliest memories was attending the latter!). These days it has the usual urban-park amenities, but within and ringing this 898-acre (343-hectare) spread are several of the borough’s top cultural attractions. Topping the list, the Queens Museum has all manner of interesting exhibits on local history, art, and culture dating back to colonial times, rotating exhibitions; and particularly noteworthy permanent collections of Tiffany glass and lots of items relating to the ’64 World’s Fair (including the Panorama of the City of New York, a nearly 900,000-building model).

Read more in my post An Under-the-Radar New York City Gem: the Borough of Queens.

Patrick Stahl