This Website is Your Portal to Every Publicly Accessible Park, Playground and Plaza in Queens

Emu Health recently compiled a great, searchable list of every single publicly accessible park, plaza, and playground in Queens. Put together using data from the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation, the new website lists all 372 parks, and can be filtered by neighborhood, facilities, and size. Each park has an address and a link to Google Maps. To get a holistic view of each park and how it is seen by the public each location has links to Instagram, FourSquare, Yelp, and Trip Advisor.

We are proud to provide you with a full list of parks in Queens NY, so you can get outside, enjoy the air and work out, keeping both you and your family healthy & well. Our mission was to provide you with one place to get all the important information, without needing to do extra searching on your own.

Check out Parks in Queens to play around with the data.

Vintage Photograph Shows Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn Circa 1944

Sheepshead Bay Brooklyn, New York, Circa 1944
Sheepshead Bay Brooklyn, New York, Circa 1944
Photo: r/Brooklyn

This great vintage photograph from around 1944 shows the intersection of Ocean Avenue and Emmons Avenue, in the Sheepshead Bay neighborhood of Brooklyn. The trolley shown is the old Ocean Ave Line which ran between Crown Heights and Sheepshead Bay until 1951. Here is a Google StreetView showing how the view from approximately the same vantage point looks today: