Micro Park--Long Island Mews Traditional Geocache
Micro Park--Long Island Mews
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I've had my eye on this park for a while. Tonight we have a cache.
Long Island Mews
0.3 acres
A British term, “mews” originally referred to stables built around a small street, and then to apartments around a small street which had been converted from such stables. Today it denotes a small residential row of houses, and this park was named Long Island Mews for its proximity to such a neighborhood and the Long Island Railroad (LIRR).
Long Island Mews is located in the center of the Maspeth, Elmhurst, Woodside, and Sunnyside neighborhoods. The city acquired the land on November 1, 1965. In 1997, Council Member Walter McCaffrey provided $631,000 for reconstruction of the park as well as the planting of various trees and flowers, including the Kwanzan cherry, Japanese dogwood, Butterfly bush, New Jersey tea, Sweet pepperbush, Compact inkberry, Butterfly weed, Common milkweed, Dense blazingstar, Meadow blazingstar, Sky blue aster, New England aster, Black eyed Susan, Purple prairie clove, Wild bergamot, and the Stiff goldenrod. Parks named the land Long Island Mews in 1998.
Today the park holds benches, play equipment with safety surfacing, swings for tots, cast concrete urns, a drinking fountain, and a flagpole with a yardarm displaying the flags of the United States, the City of New York, and Parks & Recreation. One of the more prominent features is the butterfly animal art and pathway. The path is made of steel plates illustrating the metamorphosis of a caterpillar to a butterfly. Moving along the path from the Northwest corner towards the flagpole, the plates read “Egg Conception,” “Caterpillar Birth,” “Molt Slumber,” “Cocoon Wonder,” and “Metamorphosis Rebirth.”
Cache is a small decon container wannabe. BYOP
Use caution when parking as there is a blind curve. Heed the No Standing signs nearby and park further down the block.
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