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Flushing and Meadows-Corona
1939 was a busy year, as he opened the 1939 New York World's Fair at Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, Queens, opened New York Municipal Airport No. 2 in Queens ( later renamed Fiorello H. LaGuardia Field ), and had the city buy out the Interborough Rapid Transit Company, thus completing the public takeover of the subway system.
Since 1978, the tournament has been played on acrylic hard courts at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center at Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in Queens, New York City.
In early 1964, the New York City Council added " Corona " to the park's name, now " Flushing Meadows-Corona Park " in preparation for the World's Fair.
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In 1978, Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, as it is now called, became the home of the United States Tennis Association, and the US Open tennis tournament is played there annually.
In 1989, the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation announced a multi-million dollar rehabilitation of Flushing Meadows-Corona Park.
San Francisco, Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston, Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in Queens, Chopmist Hill Area of Scituate, Rhode Island and even the Black Hills of South Dakota and Bald Head Island in North Carolina were all proposed as sites for the United Nations Headquarters before Manhattan was finally decided upon.
The 1939 – 40 New York World's Fair, which covered the of Flushing Meadows-Corona Park ( also the location of the 1964 – 1965 New York World's Fair ), was the second largest American world's fair of all time, exceeded only by St. Louis's Louisiana Purchase Exposition of 1904.
Corona is bordered on the east by Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, one of the largest parks in New York City and the site of the 1939 and 1964 World's Fairs.
Apparently non-established specimens have been found in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, New York, two ponds in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a pond in Massachusetts, and reservoirs in California and North Carolina.
The outside of the museum building, which faces the Unisphere in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park ( June 2008 )
The Queens Museum of Art ( QMA ) is an art museum and educational center located in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in the borough of Queens in New York City, United States.
It eventually reaches Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, where the highway intersects with the Grand Central Parkway just northwest of Citi Field.
It is bounded by Northern Boulevard to the north, 126th Street and Citi Field to the west, Roosevelt Avenue and Flushing Meadows-Corona Park to the south and the Flushing River to the east.
Before the 1964 New York World's Fair, Robert Moses tried to incorporate Willets Point into Flushing Meadows-Corona Park but failed when the junkyard owners hired Mario Cuomo as their lawyer.
Because it lies within the Flushing postal zone, and because of its location in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, its location is frequently referred to as Flushing, even though it is not located in the actual neighborhood of Flushing.

Flushing and Park
A big-league municipal stadium at Flushing Meadow Park is in the works, and once the lease is signed the local club will be formally recognized by Commissioner Ford C. Frick.
William A. Shea Municipal Stadium, usually shortened to Shea Stadium or just Shea (), was a stadium in the New York City borough of Queens, in Flushing Meadows – Corona Park.
The IRT 42nd Street Shuttle runs under 42nd Street between Broadway / Seventh Avenue ( Times Square ) and Park Avenue ( Grand Central ); the IRT Flushing Line begins at 41st Street / Seventh Avenue, runs between 41st and 42nd from Sixth Avenue to Park Avenue, curves onto 42nd Street between Park and Lexington Avenues, and continues under the East River to Queens.
Flushing Meadows – Corona Park, often referred to as Flushing Meadow Park, Flushing Meadows Park or Flushing Meadows, is a public park in New York City.
The original name for the new parkland was " Flushing Meadow Park.
Since 1978 the US Open tennis tournament has taken place in Flushing Meadows Park.
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Flushing and Today
Today the river therefore continues into the Westerschelde estuary only, passing Terneuzen to reach the North Sea between Breskens in Zeeuws-Vlaanderen and Vlissingen ( Flushing ) on Walcheren.

Flushing and William
Everything would be all right if only William would then consent to an equitable peace, including paying the English ten million guilders for their efforts, paying a yearly sum of ₤ 10, 000 for the North Sea herring rights and reinstating the clauses of the 1585 Treaty of Nonsuch about Brill, Sluys and Flushing being English securities.
To help thwart the plots of the Spanish Ambassador at the Court of Queen Elizabeth, William the Silent enlisted one Willem Janszoon van Hoorn, the captain of the Sea Beggar, to pretend to accept a bribe from the Spanish Ambassador and enter into a conspiracy to surprise the English garrison at Flushing.
In 1673 Sir William Temple referred to Vlissingen as " Flushing " once and " Flussingue " twice in his book about the Netherlands.
He did not arrive until 10 February 1582, when he was officially welcomed by William in Flushing.
William Henry Gilder, and educated at his father's seminary in Flushing, Queens.
In 1656 William Wickenden, a Baptist minister from Rhode Island, was arrested by Dutch colonial authorities, jailed, fined, and exiled for baptizing Christians in Flushing.
There, he successfully exonerated himself by appealing to the guarantees of religious liberty contained in the Flushing patent of 1645 granted by Governor William Kieft.
Originally promised to be finished for the 1939 World's Fair in Flushing Meadows, Queens, the project was completed in October 1956, with an opening ceremony run by Moses, Governor Averill Harriman, William Zeckendorf and local officials.
On February 15, 1945, his son, Major William Brooks Southworth, USAAF — also a professional baseball player — died in a plane crash in Flushing Bay, New York, during military flight training.

Flushing and P
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