Kissena Park is a 235-acre (95Â ha) park located in the neighborhood of Flushing in Queens, New York City. It is located along the subterranean Kissena Creek, which flows into the Flushing River. It is bordered on the west by Kissena Boulevard; on the north by Rose, Oak, Underhill, and Lithonia Avenues; on the east by Fresh Meadow Lane; and on the south by Booth Memorial Avenue. The park contains the city's only remaining velodrome, a lake of the same name, two war memorials, and various playgrounds and sports fields.
A view from the eastern end of the park overlooking the largest aspect of the park, the pond.
Dusk at Kissena Park
Stewart Railroad right-of-way at the northwest corner of Kissena Park
The Stewart Railroad rail trail in Kissena Park
Flushing is a neighborhood in the north-central portion of the New York City borough of Queens. The neighborhood is the fourth-largest central business district in New York City. Downtown Flushing is a major commercial and retail area, and the intersection of Main Street and Roosevelt Avenue at its core is the third-busiest in New York City, behind Times Square and Herald Square.
Aerial view of the neighborhood
The intersection of Main Street and Roosevelt Avenue
Old Flushing Burial Ground, used in the 17th and 18th centuries, now a park
View of Flushing, John Bowne House, 1825