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Staycation, All We Ever Wanted

By ohtadmin | on June 07, 2023

By ohtadmin | on June 07, 2023

By now, "staycation" has entered the lexicon, and is likely staying put just like its definition, because it's a great concept whose time has come. Especially when one lives in The World's Borough. But Staycation does not mean moldering away at home, or just traversing from home to work to supermarket to home like a human hamster-trail. Get out there and explore! Don't miss out! Make the most of the beautiful sunshine!

Here in Queens there are parks with lakes, horseback riding, pools of course, zoos, carousels, circuit training, running tracks, hiking trails that bring you into even deeper contact with nature than the usual pigeons and mourning doves that surround us (not that we don't love them too). There are preserves and environ­mental centers, classes in outdoor yoga, tai chi, meditation sessions, arts and crafts, kayaking, ferry tours, and concert and movie series. Not to mention our newly remodeled beaches that are acces­sible by all modes of transportation. There are some necessary, but minor, rolling closures for resiliency along the Rock­away

Beach shoreline, of 10 to 15 blocks of beach (between Beach 1 16th and Beach 143rd Streets), but it should not be a problem to get around that. The shore­line is mighty long.

Queens also is blessed with more than our share of stadiums for world-class sports, including Major League Baseball brought to us by our Amazin’ Mets at Citi Field (as well as concerts and festivals); USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, one of the world's largest public tennis facilities and home to the US Open at Arthur Ashe Stadium; and theatres and concert halls for live performances of all kinds for example at Kupferberg Center for the Arts, Queens Theatre, Flushing Town Hall, Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning, and LaGuardia Performing Arts Centers, and Forest Hills Stadium.

When you are ready for a break from the heat of the sun, Queens boasts an abundance of museums and galleries ded­icated to the arts and sciences such as Queens Museum, Noguchi, Queens County Farm Museum, Museum of the Moving Image, MoMA PS1, Louis Arm­strong

House, King Manor Museum and many more; movie theatres for cutting edge films, retrospectives, and of course summer blockbusters, in addition to the free family faves in the parks throughout the borough. (We’d list some, but we are running out of space.)

Queens Public Library cultivates the love of reading by exposing us all to every facet of culture and the highest at­tainment of knowledge. It's still the latest – and the greatest – keeping minds (and bodies and souls) alert, active, and amused in every Queens neighborhood.

And of course we have renowned restaurants, clubs, cafes, pubs, breweries, dessert shops and bakeries to feed us to our hearts’ content! With every cuisine and new chef creation in addition to our traditional, authentic ever-pleasing fa­vorites masterfully done to perfection. Of course we love this all year-round, but a stroll around our shopping strips will nearly always yield new discoveries and couldn't be more pleasant in this glorious weather we’ve been having (not to jinx it!). Just as we have all year, we have the gamut of shopping for all our summer needs, from barbecue equipment – and food! – to bathing suits and beyond; from Astoria Park to the Queens Zoo, we have it all!

(And just in case you do decide to travel, we have LaGuardia and Kennedy Airports!)

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