Corona, Queens City New York City Corona is a neighborhood in the borough of Queens in New York City.
Corona has a multicultural populace with a Latino majority, and is the site of historic African American and Italian American communities.
Corona is bordered on the east by Flushing Meadows Corona Park, one of the biggest parks in New York City and the site of the 1939 and 1964 World's Fairs.
Located inside the park are Citi Field, which replaced Shea Stadium as home of the New York Mets baseball team in 2009, and the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, where the US Open in tennis is held annually.
In North Corona is the northern section of the historic Corona neighborhood, created in 1978 with the formation of the city's Community Boards and Community Districts, and the need for coterminous borders.
Corona's chief thoroughfares include Corona Avenue, Roosevelt Avenue, Northern Boulevard, Junction Boulevard, and 108th Street.
The neighborhood is part of Queens Community Board 4, while the northernmost part is encompassed in Community Board 3. Corona's ZIP code is 11368.
Corona, with East Elmhurst, are often referred to as one combined area, Corona East Elmhurst.
The intersection of Corona Avenue, 108th Street, and 52nd Avenue The region was originally known as West Flushing, but real estate developer Thomas Waite Howard, who became the first postmaster in 1872, petitioned to have the postal service name changed to Corona in 1870, suggesting that it was the "crown of Queens County." Another theory is that the name Corona derives from the crown used as an emblem by the Crown Building Company, which is alleged to have advanced the area; the Italian immigrants who moved into the new housing stock referred to the neighborhood by the Italian or Spanish word for "crown", or "corona".
Real estate speculators from New York started the improve in 1854, the same year that the New York and Flushing Railroad began service to the region largely to serve a newly opened race course.
The games, which took place between the All Stars of Brooklyn and the All Stars of New York, are generally believed to be the first all star baseball games and in essence the place of birth of experienced baseball.
In the late 1990s, Corona saw a new wave of immigrants from Latin America.
The intersection of 108th Street and Corona Avenue is the historic center of the Italian American community, sometimes referred to as Corona Heights.
Naval hero at Pearl Harbor and the first African American recipient of the Navy Cross. Among its initial residents were jazz greats Nat Adderley & Jimmy Heath; Kenneth and Corien Drew, publishers of Queens' first black newspaper, The Corona East Elmhurst News, Thelma E.
The Louis Armstrong House attracts visitors to the neighborhood and preserves the impact of musician Louis Armstrong, one of Corona's most prominent historical residents.
According to the 2010 Census, the total populace of Corona was about 110,000. Corona is overwhelmingly Hispanic with all other demographics (Asian, black, and non-Hispanic white) being definitively below the borough average. Corona/East Elmhurst also homes one of the most extensive collections of African American art and literature in the Langston Hughes Community Library and Cultural Center, which serves Queens with reference and circulating collections, totaling approximately 30,000 volumes of materials written about or relating to black culture.
The IRT Flushing Line (7 <7> trains) runs through the neighborhood with stops at Mets Willets Point, 111th Street, 103rd Street Corona Plaza, and Junction Boulevard. The Q19, Q23, Q33, Q48, Q49, Q58, Q66, and Q72 buses also serve the neighborhood. Omar Minaya (born 1958), Former General Manager of the Montreal Expos and New York Mets Martin Scorsese (born 1942), American film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film historian who spent part of his childhood in Corona before moving to Little Italy, Manhattan Books about Corona's history and present include Roger Sanjek's The Future of Us All and Steven Gregory's Black Corona.
Chapter 6 of Andrew Morton's biography Madonna describes American pop singer Madonna's brief stint as a Corona resident in the late 1970s and early 80s.
Paul Simon referred to a fictional character as "Rosie, the queen of Corona" in his 1972 song Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard.
Lemon Ice King of Corona, at 108th Street and Corona Avenue, appears in the opening credits of the TV show King of Queens.
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"Louis Armstrong, the jubilated jazz trumpeter and singer, died in his sleep yesterday morning at his home in the Corona section of Queens." Resigned under fire in 1928 after having been political ruler for 17 years.", The New York Times, November 25, 1935.
"One of three children, Marie Daly was born on April 16, 1921 in Corona, Queens, New York." Farrell, 91; Judge Who Presided At the Sutton Trial", The New York Times, November 10, 1992.
"House of Satch Gets New Gig", The New York Times, February 10, 1996.
"The Armstrongs embraced Corona, chose partly because of its adjacency to other jazz musicians who lived nearby, including Dizzy Gillespie, Jimmy Heath said Phoebe Jacobs, executive vice president of the Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation." "Estee Lauder, Pursuer of Beauty And Cosmetics Titan, Dies at 97", The New York Times, April 26, 2004.
"Josephine Esther Mentzer was born at home in Corona, Queens, on July 1, 1908, as stated to a several biographies, although her family believes it may have been two years earlier." "Johnny Lo - Bianco, 85, Referee In Controversial Duran Bout", The New York Times, July 21, 2001.
"By the time we get to town, en route to Connecticut, Madonna is living in Corona, Queens, in a Jewish house of worship that has been converted into a studio, and playing drums in her boyfriend Dan Gilroy's band, the Breakfast Club." "Frankie Manning, the Ambassador and Master of Lindy Hop, Dies at 94", The New York Times, April 28, 2009.
"Minaya was born in the Dominican Republic, raised in Corona, Queens, by parents who spoke only Spanish." Ramirez, 52, Publisher of El Diario", The New York Times, July 13, 1999.
"Jim Valvano, Colorful College Basketball Coach, Is Dead at 47", The New York Times, April 29, 1993.
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