Vleigh Place Playground

I moved to the area when I was a teenager, in college, for an urban planning class, I actually did a study on this park. I found it a good example of equality. See, there is no easy access to the Flushing Meadow Park from this side of Flushing (Kew Garden Hills), so many people in the area (from the left: the richy fancy homes, most Jewish families; and from the right: all the diversity apartments). I think this park makes a good division between types of housing (it’s smooth and fair). I hope it get well maintained and safe for my nieces that still live in that area. :-)
The name of this park has changed to: Judge Moses Weinstein Playground (according to Gooogle)

This is my home park for my boys, they have spent hours and hours on this 3.25 acres, running around the ball fields, or playing in the playground.
It has swings (baby and big kid), slides, bridges, jungle gyms and water between Memorial Day and Labor Day. The bathrooms are functional, and when they are locked, there’s always the fields.
They have houses to sit in, and rubber ground so the kiddies don’t hurt themselves. Sometimes there’s an aggressive game of kickball, that resists transfer to the field, and sometimes you can smell cannabis from the local teenagers. Rarely is there a hobo in the houses, but once there was. They play lots of ball games on the fields on the weekends when the weather is good, and my sons have played ball there too.
Sometimes the city provides a person who brings out balls or coloring pages and markers, though I haven’t seen someone this year, maybe due to cutbacks in the down economy.
There is some real diversity in terms of cultures here, from Jewish to Hispanic, to Indian and Polish, plus Asian. I think I’m the only WASP, but the Poles remind me of Wisconsin. At different times you see different people. Saturday is a big time for the Jewish families, all dressed up. Met a Druze mother, and all kinds of Hispanics from all over the world. Lots of very interesting people here, and often very friendly.
My sons have spent quite a lot of time here, and the people are very friendly and helpful, it has a community feel to it, even if some of the people don’t speak English very well. Lots of Indians here too.
Also close to convenient pizza and bodegas up the block. A lovely park, to spend lots of good outside time for the children.