Playground For All Children

Playground For All Children is a playground in Queens, New York. Playground For All Children is situated nearby to the church Capilla Evangelica, as well as near United Nations Avenue South.

Type: Playground
Description: first playground constructed in the United States for disabled and able-bodied children
Also known as: “Playground for All Children”
Wheelchair access: yes

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Queens Museum and Arthur Ashe Stadium.

Queens Museum

Museum

Photo: Jim.henderson, Public domain.

The Queens Museum is an art museum and educational center at Flushing Meadows–Corona Park in Queens, New York City, United States. Established in 1972, the museum includes the Panorama of the City of New York, a room-sized scale model of the five boroughs of New York City built for the 1964 New York World's Fair. Queens Museum is situated 1,900 feet north of Playground For All Children.

Arthur Ashe Stadium

Stadium

Photo: jeff horne, CC BY 2.0.

Arthur Ashe Stadium is a retractable roof tennis arena at Flushing Meadows–Corona Park in Queens, New York City. Part of the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, it is the main stadium of the US Open tennis tournament and has a capacity of 23,771, making it the largest tennis stadium in the world. Arthur Ashe Stadium is situated 3,300 feet north of Playground For All Children.

New York Hall of Science

Museum

Photo: GK tramrunner229, CC BY-SA 3.0.

The New York Hall of Science is a science museum at 47-01 111th Street, within Flushing Meadows–Corona Park, in the Corona neighborhood of Queens in New York City, New York, US. New York Hall of Science is situated 2,400 feet north of Playground For All Children.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Corona and LeFrak City.

Corona

Neighborhood

Photo: Epicgenius, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Corona is a neighborhood in the borough of Queens in New York City. It borders Flushing and Flushing Meadows–Corona Park to the east, Jackson Heights and Elmhurst to the west, Forest Hills and Rego Park to the south, and East Elmhurst to the north.

LeFrak City

Neighborhood

Photo: Margarettime, CC BY-SA 4.0.

LeFrak City is a 4,605-apartment development in the southernmost region of Corona and the easternmost part of Elmhurst, a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens.

Forest Hills

Neighborhood

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.

Forest Hills is a neighborhood in the central portion of the borough of Queens in New York City. It is adjacent to Corona to the north, Rego Park and Glendale to the west, Forest Park to the south, Kew Gardens to the southeast, and Flushing Meadows–Corona Park and Kew Gardens Hills to the east.

Playground For All Children

Category: recreation area
Location: Queens, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude

40.74103° or 40° 44′ 28″ north

Longitude

-73.84919° or 73° 50′ 57″ west

Operator

New York City Department of Parks and Recreation

Open location code

87G8P5R2+C8

OpenStreetMap ID

way 277447812

OpenStreetMap feature

leisure=playground

OpenStreetMap attribute

wheelchair=yes

Wikidata ID

Q126899278

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Capilla Evangelica and United Nations Avenue South.

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