Forest Park 4 (Fore!) Traditional Geocache
Tatanka49: Another oldie but goodie bites the dust as I cannot maintain it.
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Big park...too few caches. Fourth in a series.
This cache is located along the Greenway bike path between the Jackie Robinson Parkway and the Forest Park Golf Course.
There is NO ACCESS from the parkway. There is a bike path that connects it to Forest Park 5. It passes under the parkway east of the Park House. No need to walk along the busy roadway.
THROUGH THE PARKS AND CEMETERIES: The Jackie Robinson Parkway, formerly known as the Interborough Parkway, serves as a link between central Queens and East New York, Brooklyn. Proposed as early as 1901, when a bill had been introduced in the New York State Legislature amending the Cemetery Act to provide for its construction, the Jackie Robinson Parkway serves as a spur of the Grand Central Parkway.
DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION: Like the eastern half of the Grand Central Parkway, the Jackie Robinson Parkway follows the contour of Long Island's glacial moraine. Reflecting early parkway design, the Jackie Robinson Parkway had a design speed of 35 MPH, 10-foot-wide travel lanes and winding curves. It also lacked emergency breakdown shoulders and acceleration-deceleration lanes. The basic design "reflected an era of leisurely Sunday drives."
Contracts for the disinterment of bodies were let along the right-of-way of the parkway through Cypress Hills and Mount Carmel cemeteries. After initial resistance from residents construction of the Jackie Robinson Parkway began in 1933. The parkway was completed in 1935.
HONORING A BASEBALL GREAT: On April 14, 1997, the Interborough Parkway was renamed after Jackie Robinson to commemorate the 50th anniversary of his breaking the color barrier in Major League Baseball with the Brooklyn Dodgers.
In his eleven seasons, Robinson helped the Dodgers win six National League pennants, culminating with the World Series championship against the Yankees in 1955. In 1962, five years after his retirement, he was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. The parkway passes the cemetery in Cypress Hills where Robinson was buried in 1972.
The cache container is peanut butter jar.
Be careful of bikers, skaters, pedestrians and golf carts.
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