Dear Queens Crapper:
A
few years ago I sent you some pictures of this stretch of road in
Flushing Meadows Park. After extensive work there was still significant
flooding. Well, that stretch was under construction again recently (for
a long time!) but they seem to have solved the drainage problem. There
is still a bit of water but this picture was taken today after a ton of
rain this week. This is on the north side of the lake. They also
fixed a chronically flooded spot on the south side.
As you can see from the second picture, there is still
work to be done, but I thought to be fair to the parks department I
should let you know of the improvements.
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Come back in a year.
I always wondered why Flushing Meadows Park has so few trees ?
Well, at least it will be good for a year, but yes, the whole thing is a swamp that is a continuously sinking.
This area has huge drainage issues. We walked on the grass a day after some rain,only to find swamp like conditions.
Gross, as my son and I jogged through the grass, only to have the boy slip and fall. He was soaked!
Maybe planting more trees would soak up the water?
Flushing Meadows Park was built on the site of the 1964 World's Fair, which was built on the site of the 39 Fair, which was built on an ash heap, which was built on the lowlands running along the Flushing River. No wonder it floods.
A swamp? Hell they tear down a park or playground ever 10 years for honest graft so why should Flushing Meadows be any different.
Flushing River beats Robert Moses, Tom Campagna notwithstanding
THAT WHOLE AREA BY THE LAKE IS UNDER-MAINTAINED. THE CITY NEEDS TO INVEST AT LEAST $100 MILLION TO MAKE IT WORTH VISITING. FORMER COUNCILWOMAN JULISSA FERREIRAS PROMISED TO CLEAN UP THE LAKE AND RECOVER FUNDS TO BRING IT BACK TO IT'S WORLDS FAIR GLORY BUT AFTER GETTING COMPLACENT WITH HER JOB AND SEEING THAT HER OPTIMISM WASN'T GETTING NOWHERE SHE MOVED TO VIRGINIA.
For the first World Fair, Moses widened the Flushing River in order to bring the exhibits in by boat. But for the second World Fair, he narrowed and buried the Flushing River and renamed it a Creek. Most of the flooding in central Queens is because of this. This is why Flushing Bay stinks - there is no water flow. Tom Campagna, Claire Schulman's Borough Engineer, had plans to return Flushing River to its original form when he died.
In the 1800s they considered extending the Flushing River to Jamaica as an alternate shipping route.
"Come back in a year." when the plane-downing geese and West Mile mosquitoes have taken over
It would be great for SCUBA tourism. Dive around the sunken World's Fair Exhibits.
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