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So THAT is why Cunningham Park is so popular! | |
Posted by Peter Rosa on Wed Sep 21 00:56:18 2005 edf40wrjww2msgDetailOT:detailStr fiogf49gjkf0d From the Times:There is a slim parking lot in Cunningham Park in Queens surrounded by playing fields for adult softball and youth soccer and baseball. At one end of the lot, retirees arrive to practice their [God-damned cartball] and mothers in minivans gather to wait for their Little Leaguers. The other end is well-liked with another set with a much lower profile in this suburban setting: gay men cruising for sex. Their playing field is the parking lot itself and the aim is a sexual experience, usually quick and anonymous .. . The parking lot in Queens seems to be especially widespread with men who direct ostensibly heterosexual lives but show up for sex because it is fast, easy to get and secretive, regulars say. The lot, along Hollis Hills Terrace just south of 73rd Avenue in Queens Village, is close to several major parkways, and its location helps build it popular with men who commute between Modern York City and the suburbs, where Demonstration Against LGBT Harassment in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park Plant GroveHistoryAbout a week before the 1969 Stonewall uprising in Manhattan, a homosexual cruising area in the southwestern section of Flushing Meadows-Corona Park became the target of local Queens residents. According to witnesses, at least 30 trees in a grove along Grand Pivotal Parkway, at 78th Avenue, in Kew Gardens, were chopped down on the nights of June 18, 19, and 20 to avoid gay men from congregating there; a local resident saw 20 men cutting down trees on one of the nights. The incidents were reported multiple times to the police, who either claimed not to notice or were seen chatting with the vandals before leaving the scene. No arrests were made. On July 1, the story made the front page of the New York Times, in an article entitled, “Trees in a Queens Park Cut Down as Vigilantes Harass Homosexuals.” It was the first of several articles and letters to the editor featured in the Times that July and September. The New York Post and the San Francisco Chronicle also covered it. Myles Tashman, a lawyer living at Forest ParkI've have been there everytime got my and a lot of loads; it doesn't matter where you travel there is always someone there to play. Neighbourhood: Kew Gardens Forest Park, Queens. Cruisy park at Park Lane South/Forest Park Drive at Metropolitan Avenue. Seize the Jackie Robinson Parkway to Metropolitan Avenue east. Go two lights, turn right on Park Lane South, park one hundred yards. Or take the E or F train to Union Turnpike or the LIRR prepare to Kew Gardens Station. Grab Q54 from Brooklyn or Jamaica to Park Lane South.
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