Vleigh Playground

Vleigh Playground is a 2.243-acre park in Kew Gardens Hills, Queens, New York City. It takes its name from Head of the Vleigh Road, a colonial period path that ran along the northern boundary of the playground site.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Lander College for Men and Yeshivas Chofetz Chaim.

Lander College for Men

University

The Lander College for Men is a private men's division of Touro University System located in Kew Gardens Hills, Queens, New York City. Its stated goal is to provide a college curriculum while maintaining a traditional Yeshiva environment.

Yeshivas Chofetz Chaim

College

Photo: Danthecan, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Yeshivas Chofetz Chaim is an Orthodox yeshiva based in Kew Gardens Hills, Queens, New York, United States. It is primarily an American, non-chasidic Haredi Talmudic yeshiva.

Max and Mina’s

Restaurant

Photo: Tduk, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Max and Mina's is an ice cream store in New York City, United States, opened in 1997. Owned by brothers Bruce and Mark Becker, it is known for its ever-changing eccentric ice cream flavors, such as Cajun, Lox, Purple Mint Chip, beer, malt.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Pomonok and Fresh Meadows.

Pomonok

Neighborhood

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Pomonok is a working class neighborhood within the Flushing area in the New York City borough of Queens. Its borders are the Long Island Expressway to the north; Kissena Boulevard to the west; 73rd Avenue to the south; and 164th Street to the east.

Fresh Meadows

Neighborhood

Photo: Itzjustdrama, Public domain.

Fresh Meadows is a neighborhood in the northeastern section of the New York City borough of Queens. Fresh Meadows was formerly part of the broader town of Flushing and is bordered to the north by the Horace Harding Expressway and Auburndale; to the west by Pomonok, St.

Kew Gardens Hills

Neighborhood

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Kew Gardens Hills is a neighborhood in the middle of the New York City borough of Queens. The borders are Flushing Meadows–Corona Park to the west, the Long Island Expressway to the north, Union Turnpike to the south, and Kissena/Parsons Boulevards to the east.

Vleigh Playground

Type: Park
Description: public park in Queens, New York
Categories: playground and recreation area
Location: Queens, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude

40.72984° or 40° 43′ 47″ north

Longitude

-73.81653° or 73° 48′ 60″ west

Elevation

75 feet (23 metres)

Open location code

87G8P5HM+W9

OpenStreetMap ID

way 382669634

OpenStreetMap feature

leisure=park

GeoNames ID

7176394

Wikidata ID

Q20880885

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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

“Vleigh Playground” goes by many names.

Cebuano: “Vleigh Playground”

Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Forest Hills and Utopia.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Congregation Young Israel of Kew Gardens Hills and Abe Wolfson Triangle.

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