The construction of the World’s Fair site in 1939 leveled the mountains of ash and dealt a fatal blow to the remaining wetlands of Flushing Meadows.
Scott Fitzgerald to call Corona the “valley of ashes” in The Great Gatsby. Corona’s ash heaps had become so infamous that they inspired F. The largest of these mounds was almost 100 feet tall and nicknamed “Mount Corona” by the locals. Over the next 30 years, the giant piles of burned garbage were unloaded into the Flushing Meadows, creating mounds 40 to 50 feet high. However, by the 1890s, the corrupt Tammany-controlled Brooklyn Ash Removal Company began using the Flushing Meadows as their private dumping ground for the ashen remains of incinerated garbage. After they were largely driven out of western Queens in the late 1600s, the farmers and townspeople of the rural borough continued to use these wetlands, which had come to be known as the Flushing Meadows, as common hunting land. The Lenape people who lived in the area around Elmhurst and Flushing had used these wetlands as hunting grounds for millennia. As of yet, there is no timeline for implementation.For 10,000 years after the melting of the last glaciers on Long Island, the three-mile stretch of land between the hills of Flushing and the woodlands of Jackson Heights contained a sprawling saltwater marsh. Update: A DOT spokesperson says the agency will present the findings of its traffic study to CB4 in early 2016. The agency has yet to respond to Streetsblog's request for a project update. “But if our commitment is that there is not one life lost due to a pedestrian crash, as is the goal of Vision Zero, we have to make difficult decisions like this one.”ĭOT could move forward with the 111th Street plan whenever it sees fit. “We recognize that when there are events at the park that attract many people from outside our neighborhood there could be some congestion,” they said on Tuesday. Some members picked up cycling through a partnership with WE Bike NYC, which seeks to provide women with education in bike maintenance and advocacy. It began as an exercise group organized by Immigrant Movement International for neighborhood mothers. Mujeres en Movimiento has around 150 members. “We deserve to have a voice in the development of this community, so that its development benefit us and our children, not marginalize us,” they told the board. The women from Mujeres en Movimiento felt silenced by a lack of translation services or space for public input at Moya’s town hall, so they put together an opinion piece for the Queens Latino as well as a speech they delivered in English and Spanish to CB4 on Tuesday.
In October, Moya hosted a "town hall" where he laid out three other options for 111th Street, none of which would narrow the excessive traffic lanes. Community Board 4 has not voted in favor of it. Council Member Julissa Ferreras-Copeland has committed $2.7 million from her discretionary fund to make it happen, but Assembly Member Francisco Moya and some nearby residents have been trying to thwart the plan.
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The 111th redesign arose from a series of workshops hosted in 2014 by Immigrant Movement International, Transportation Alternatives, Make the Road New York and the Queens Museum.
DOT’s proposal would repurpose one vehicle lane in each direction to create space for a protected two-way bike lane along the park and additional on-street parking. The only way to get to Flushing Meadows Corona Park from Corona without crossing a highway is to cross 111th Street, but with five traffic lanes, it's dangerous for the families who use it every day. Members of Mujeres en Movimiento demanded a safer 111th Street at CB 4's monthly meeting on Tuesday.
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