Queens Zoo

Queens Zoo
Logo of Queens Zoo, part of the Wildlife Conservation Society
Andean bear female at the zoo.
Date opened	October 26, 1968 (as Flushing Meadow Zoo)^[1] June 25, 1992 (as Queens Zoo)^[2]
Location	Queens, New York, United States
Coordinates	40°44′37″N 73°50′55″W / 40.7437401°N 73.8485923°W / 40.7437401; -73.8485923Coordinates: 40°44′37″N 73°50′55″W / 40.7437401°N 73.8485923°W / 40.7437401; -73.8485923
Land area	18 acres (7.3 ha)^[1]
Number of species	75+^[3]
Memberships	AZA^[4]
Public transit access	Subway: to 111th Street Bus: Q23, Q48
Website	www.queenszoo.com

The Queens Zoo is an 18-acre (7.3 ha) zoo located in Flushing Meadows – Corona Park in the New York City borough of Queens. The zoo is part of an integrated system of four zoos and one aquarium managed by the Wildlife Conservation Society in partnership with the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, and is accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA).

History

Inside the aviary

Constructed on the site of the 1964 New York World's Fair and opened in 1968, it is the first to be designed from the start as a cageless zoo. Robert Moses turned the first shovel full of earth for the new construction on August 20, 1966, and cut the ceremonial ribbon to the new 18-acre (7.3 ha) "Flushing Meadows Zoo" a bit more than two years later on October 26, 1968.^[1]^[5]

The zoo's aviary is a geodesic dome designed by Thomas C. Howard of Synergetics, Inc. and used during the 1964 Fair.^[2] The dome was originally designed as the fair's major indoor assembly hall, with no indoor supports blocking anyone's view, and repurposed for the 1965 season as a tribute to Winston Churchill after he died in 1964.^[6] The 175-foot (53 m) diameter dome was one of the largest single-layer structures of its time. It was dismantled and stored after the fair, and was later reassembled in its current location with a mesh netting covering instead of the solid tent of the original dome.^[7]

The zoo was closed in 1988, and reopened in 1992 after a four-year, $16 million renovation, redesign, and reconceptualization.^[8]

Animals

The zoo is home to more than 75 species that are native to the Americas.^[3] It is the only one of five zoos in New York City that exhibits Andean bears. The zoo is also home to pumas, California sea lions, Coywolves, snowy owls, Canada lynx, pudú, thick-billed parrots, American alligators, Roosevelt elk, American bison, Trumpeter swans, pronghorn, sandhill crane, bald eagle, Chacoan peccaries, a walk-through aviary, and a farm with a variety of domestic animals.^[9]

References

1 2 3 Asbury, Edith Evans (October 27, 1968). "Moses Helps to Open First Queens Zoo". nytimes.com. The New York Times. Retrieved May 21, 2012.
1 2 "About the City Zoos". nyzoosandaquarium.com. Wildlife Conservation Society. Archived from the original on August 22, 2008. Retrieved May 20, 2012.
1 2 "Animals and Exhibits". queenszoo.com. Wildlife Conservation Society. Retrieved May 22, 2012.
↑ "List of Accredited Zoos and Aquariums". aza.org. AZA. Retrieved May 27, 2010.
↑ Schumach, Murray (May 21, 2012). "Moses Gets Down to Earth in Opening World's Fair Site for Zoo". nytimes.com. The New York Times. Retrieved October 1, 2007.
↑ "World's Fair Building / Churchill Tribute". westland.net. Jeffrey Stanton. Retrieved May 21, 2012.
↑ Gray, Christopher (January 3, 1993). singlees-the-queens-aviary-a-great-outside-interior-space.html "Streetscapes: The Queens Aviary; A Great Outside Interior Space" Check |url= value (help). nytimes.com. The New York Times. Retrieved May 20, 2012.
↑ Lyall, Sarah (October 22, 1993). "Zoo Story: A Q.-and-A. Stroll in Queens". nytimes.com. The New York Times. Retrieved June 11, 2009.
↑ "Zoo Map" (PDF). queenszoo.com. Wildlife Conservation Society. Retrieved May 22, 2012.

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Zoos of the Wildlife Conservation Society

Zoos	Bronx Zoo Central Park Zoo Prospect Park Zoo Queens Zoo

Aquariums	New York Aquarium

Zoos of New York State

Zoos	Bear Mountain State Park Binghamton Zoo at Ross Park Bronx Zoo Buffalo Zoo Catskill Game Farm Central Park Zoo Long Island Game Farm New York State Living Museum Prospect Park Zoo Queens Zoo Rosamond Gifford Zoo Seneca Park Zoo Staten Island Zoo Trevor Zoo Utica Zoo

Aquariums	Long Island Aquarium and Exhibition Center New York Aquarium Niagara Falls Aquarium

Protected areas of New York City

Federal

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Other Protected Areas	Gateway National Recreation Area Floyd Bennett Field Fort Tilden Fort Wadsworth Great Kills Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge Jacob Riis Miller Field

State

State Parks	Bayswater Point Clay Pit Ponds East River Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Gantry Plaza Riverbank Roberto Clemente

City Parks and
Preserves

Manhattan	79th Street Boat Basin Abingdon Square Albert Capsouto Asphalt Green Battery Bennett British Garden at Hanover Square Bowling Green Bryant Captain Patrick J. Brown Walk Carl Schurz Central Park Chelsea City Hall Collect Columbus Corlears Hook Dag Hammarskjold Plaza Damrosch Dante DeSalvio Playground DeWitt Clinton Drumgoole Plaza Duane East River Greenway East River Esplanade East River Park Stuyvesant Cove Finn Square Foley Square Fort Tryon Fort Washington Gorman Gramercy Hamilton Fish Hanover Square Harlem River Hell's Kitchen Herald Square High Line Highbridge Holcombe Rucker Hudson Hudson River Imagination Playground at Burling Slip Inwood Hill Isham J. Hood Wright Jackie Robinson Jackson Square John Jay Liberty Louis Cuvillier Madison Square Manhattan Waterfront Greenway Marcus Garvey Mill Rock Mitchell Square Morningside Murphy's Brother's Playground Muscota Marsh Paley Peretz Square Peter Cooper Plaza Lafayette Queen Elizabeth II September 11th Garden Ralph Bunche Randalls Island Richard Tucker Square Riverside Robert Moses Playground Roosevelt Triangle Rucker Sakura Samuel N. Bennerson 2nd Playground Sara Delano Roosevelt Septuagesimo Uno Seward Sheridan Square Sherman Square St. John's St. Nicholas St. Vartan Straus Stuyvesant Square Swindler Cove Teardrop Theodore Roosevelt Thomas Jefferson Thomas Paine Tompkins Square Tribeca Union Square Verdi Square Vesuvio Playground Wards Island Washington Market Washington Square West Side Community Garden Winston Churchill Zuccotti

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The Bronx	Baretto Point Bicentennial Veterans Bronx Castle Hill City Island Wetlands Claremont Concrete Plant Crotona Devoe Ewen Ferry Point Givans Creek Woods Grant Haffen Harding Harris Henry Hudson Hunts Point Jerome Joseph Rodman Drake Joyce Kilmer Julius Richman Macombs Dam Mill Pond Mullaly New York Botanical Garden North and South Brother Islands Orchard Beach Pelham Bay Rodman's Neck Playground 52 Poe Pugsley Creek Rainey Raoul Wallenberg Forest Richman Riverdale St. Mary's Seton Falls Seton Soundview Spuyten Duyvil Shorefront St. James St. Mary's Starlight Tremont University Woods Van Cortlandt Vidalia Vinmont Veteran Washington's Walk

Queens	Admiral Alley Alley Pond Andrews Grove Astoria Baisley Pond Bayside Fields Bayswater Beach Channel Big Bush Bowne Brant Point Wildlife Sanctuary Breininger Broad Channel American Park Broad Channel Park Broad Channel Wetlands Brooklyn–Queens Greenway Brookville Bulova Captain Tilly Crocheron Cunningham Det. Keith L. Williams Det. William T. Gunn Dr. Charles R. Drew Dubos Point Wildlife Sanctuary Doughboy Douglaston Elmhurst Evergreen Flushing Fields Flushing Meadows-Corona Forest Fort Tilden Fort Totten Francis Lewis Frank Golden Frank Principe Haggerty Harvey Highland Hinton Hoffman Hook Creek Hunter's Point Idlewild Jamaica Bay John Golden Juniper Valley Kissena Kohlreiter Square Libra Triangle Linnaeus Little Bay Louis Pasteur Mafera Macneil Marconi Marie Curie Montbellier O'Donohue Overlook Park of the Americas Phil "Scooter" Rizzuto Ofc. Edward Byrne Powell's Cove Queens County Farm Museum Queensbridge Rachel Carson Railroad Ralph Demarco Rochdale Rockaway Community Rufus King Seagirt Avenue Wetlands Socrates Sculpture Spring Creek Springfield St. Albans Travers Tudor Udall's Park Preserve Wayanda

Staten Island	Aesop Allison Pond Amundsen Circle Annadale Arbutus Woods Arden Woods Austen House Barrett Bayview Terrace Blood Root Valley Bloomingdale Blue Heron Park Preserve Blueberry Bradys Bunker Ponds Buono Beach Carlton Clove Lakes Clove's Tail Conference House Corporal Thompson Crescent Beach Deere Eibs Pond Faber Fairview Father Macris Forest Grove Fort Hill Fort Wadsworth FDR Boardwalk and Beach Freshkills Gaeta Great Kills Graniteville Quarry Graniteville Swamp Hero High Rock\| Hoffman Island Huguenot Ponds Hybrid Oak Woods Ingram Woods Isle of Meadows Jones Woods Joseph Manna King Fisher Kingdom Pond Last Chance LaTourette Lemon Creek Long Pond Gen. MacArthur Maple Woods Mariners Marsh Meredith Woods Midland Beach Midland Field Miller Field Mount Loretto Unique Area New Dorp Beach New York Chinese Scholar's Garden Northerleigh Park Ocean Breeze Old Place Creek Olmstead-Beil House Prall's Island Reed's Basket WIllow Swamp Richmond Terrace Wetlands Saw Mill Creek Marsh Schmul Seaside Wildlife Nature Shooters Island Siedenburg Silver Lake Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden Sobel Court South Beach Wetlands St. George Staten Island Greenbelt Staten Island Industrial Swinburne Island Tappen Tompkinsville Tottenville Shore Von Briesen Walker Wegener Westerleigh Westwood William T. Davis Wildlife Refuge Willowbrook Wolfe's Pond

Other

Nature centers	Alley Pond Belvedere Castle Blue Heron Crotona Dana Discovery Center Forest Fort Greene Fort Totten Greenbelt High Rock Inwood Hill Orchard Beach Prospect Salt Marsh Van Cortlandt

Zoos	Bronx Central Park Prospect Queens Staten Island

Botanical gardens	Brooklyn Botanic Conservatory New York Botanical Queens Botanical Staten Island Botanical New York Chinese Scholar's Wave Hill

Roosevelt Island	Lighthouse Southpoint

New York City Department of Parks and Recreation

Flushing Meadows–Corona Park

Structures

Stadiums	Citi Field Former: Shea Stadium USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center Arthur Ashe Stadium Louis Armstrong Stadium Former: Singer Bowl

Buildings	New York Hall of Science New York State Pavilion Queens Museum Terrace on the Park

Outdoor attractions	Botanical Gardens Carousel Ice rink and swimming pool Marina Theatre in the Park Zoo Sculptures and relics Rocket Thrower Unisphere Westinghouse Time Capsules

Transport	Mets – Willets Point (subway) Mets – Willets Point (LIRR)

Events

Geography

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