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to the Americas. The zoo, which is open 365 days a year, features winding paths and nature trails, where visitors come into contact with everything from pumas to bears to owls. In the waterway, sandhill cranes and ducks co-exist with alligators during the warm-weather months. There is an outdoor aquatic area, where sea lions, walruses and seals swim, play, and dry themselves on rocks. (Feeding time always brings many human spectators.) One of the most famous aspects is the aviary, a large, caged area where parrots, turkeys, peacocks and sloths live with countless ducks and a few pigeons that have sneaked in from the outside. It was created out of the Winston Churchill Pavilion at the 1964 World’s Fair. Across a walkway is a petting farm with Andean llamas and alpacas, enormous cattle, pigs, sheep, chickens, goats, and horses. Inside scoop: Between the zoo and 108th Street is a carousel with 64 jumping horses, a lion and a few chariots. Address: 53-51 111th Street and www.queenszoo.com. Citi Field Citi Field is home to the New York Mets of Major League Baseball. Finished in 2009, the stadium has the capacity for about 42,000 spectators in a stadium that was designed specifically for baseball and has a natural grass field. Seating is angled toward the infield and positioned lower and closer to the field that in other parks. The exterior façade and main entrance, called the “Jackie Robinson Rotunda,” 34 Satchmo Block Party


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