Future of Queens is rising!

An interlocking set of projects and historic benchmarks are coming together to create New York’s next dynamo for tourism, business, and families in and around Flushing Meadows-Corona Park.
By 2011, we will see:

The 2010 census marking Queens as the most populous borough in New York City

Citi Field with the Mets in their third season in the new stadium surrounded by capacious parking

The water quality of the Flushing River transformed by the giant new Flushing storm water storage facility

The new skating rink, new birds in the Buckminster Fuller aviary at the Queens Zoo, expanded Queens Theater in the Park, green building at Queens Botanical Garden, and new covered courts at the home of the US Tennis Open all enjoying growing crowds

The Park will feature new fields and a much improved boating facility

The opening of the newly refurbished Great Hall at the New York Hall of Science, coupled with a new early childhood science lab, a Rocket Park space experience, and the addition of night-time events in the largest Science Playground in the United States

The RKO project and other major building projects in Flushing transforming the look and feel as well as the service capacity of this high-energy community fed by the City’s most heavily used transportation hub at the Flushing terminus of the No. 7 train.
Even now, this dynamism is visible:
Citigroup is working with culturals in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park to distribute over a thousand Mets tickets for this spring season as part of the run up to the opening of Citi Field.
The New York Hall of Science has broken the 400,000 mark in on-site attendance making it a peer of other great cultural institutions like the New York Botanical Garden and the Brooklyn Museum of Art
Flushing Meadows-Corona Park has never looked better than it will this spring as the investments of recent years continue
And the Borough President; City, State, and Federal elected officials; cultural, sports, Parks, Police and Community Board leadership surrounding Flushing Meadows-Corona Park are networking in many ways to boost and guide the momentum underway.
An impressive group of experienced leaders is coming together under the chair role of former Borough President, Claire Shulman, to complete the jewel in the crown - the redevelopment of Willets Point.
No more thoughtful and trusted leader could have been appointed for this complex task. With the riverbanks now open for development as aesthetic assets and Citi Field, the airports, a newly refurbished Flushing, and the area culturals and the Park provide the perfect surrounding; the assets at Willets Point will be positioned to take Queens and the City to a new level.

Marilyn Hoyt is President and CEO of the New York Hall of Science