In Woodside, Queens, there are many parks like Big Bush Playground, Lawrence Virgilio Playground, this park is a beautiful and comfortable place for playing with friends. Big Bush Playground is located at 61st and 64th Streets, Queens Boulevard, and the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. In 1936, Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia (1882-1947, mayor 1934-1945) designated this land as parkland. In December 1936, the Regional Plan Association recommended the construction of a link between the Gowanus Parkway and the Triborough Bridge.Today, Bush Park’s has two baseball fields, climbing structures, swings, slides, handball courts and sitting areas. People of neighborhood use the recreational facilities daily to play baseball and soccer youth leagues. A flagpole, lampposts, benches, and trees decorate Big Bush Playground.[1] Lawrence Virgilio Playground is located between 39th Road and 39th Drive and runs between 52nd to 54th Streets in Queens. It used to be called Windmuller Park which was the name of a successful banking industry owner. In 2002 the park’s playground was named for Lawrence Virgilio (1962-2001), a New York City Firefighter who died in the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.[2] It has open-air stage, a renovated ADA- accessible comfort station, mini-pool, exercise track, pathways, fencing, basketball courts, and new exercise equipment which helps the neighbor people to enjoy their off day.
Windmuller Park offers fitness activities and recreation every Thursday through August as a boot camp from 9:00 am -10:00 am. This park was named under the preeminent banker Mr. Louis Windmuller. In 1936, Windmuller"s children donated the family land to the city and it developed shortly after under the federal works administration relief work program.
John Vincent Daniels Jr. Square,43 Ave., Roosevelt Ave. bet. 50 St., 51 St. and 52 St.
woodside, Queens. It's in the border between Sunnyside and Woodside.This square honors Vincent Daniels, Jr., a Woodside resident killed in action during World War I. He served as a Private 1st Class in the 102nd Field Signal Company and lost his life during the final days of the war in 1918. In 1933 the Board of Alderman named this site Vincent Daniels Square, “to pay tribute to a son of Queens County who made the supreme sacrifice in the World War.[3]
- ^ "Big Bush Playground Highlights : NYC Parks". www.nycgovparks.org. Retrieved 2019-10-03.
- ^ "Lawrence Virgilio Playground Highlights : NYC Parks". www.nycgovparks.org. Retrieved 2019-10-03.
- ^ "John Vincent Daniels Jr. Square : NYC Parks". www.nycgovparks.org. Retrieved 2019-10-17.