Inside scoop: The museum is currently undergoing a campaign to build a large education center in a lot across the street. Address: 34-56 107th Street, Corona, and www.louisarmstronghouse.org. Noguchi Museum The Noguchi Museum was designed by Japanese-American sculptor Isamu Noguchi in 1985. As to be expected, the two-story, 24,000-square-foot, 12-gallery space exhibits his sculptures, furniture designs, architectural models, and drawings. There is also an adjacent outdoor garden with more Noguchi sculptures. The museum is located across the street from where Noguchi worked and lived during the 1960s and 1970s. He bought a photogravure plant and gas station in 1974 and converted them into his museum. Inside scoop: Noguchi is free the first Friday of every month. During the summer months (May–September), it has extended hours and special programming. Address: 9-01 33rd Road, Long Island City, and www.noguchi.org. Socrates Sculpture Center Socrates Sculpture Center is New York City’s only public area dedicated to giving artists the chance to exhibit largescale creations. Huge banners stand beside enormous statues or long, winding pieces. The park is located at the banks of the East River, giving the air a slightly salty aspect and fantastic views of Roosevelt Island and Manhattan’s Upper East Side, including Gracie Mansion, where the mayor lives. The center was actually an abandoned landfill that had become an illegal dumping site. In1986, a group of artists and local activists reclaimed it. Today, it hosts outdoor movies, an annual kite-flying extravaganza, a circus, a bicycle parade, Saturday workshops, and other activities. Inside scoop: Socrates is only one block from the Noguchi Museum and across the street from the Mansard-Roofed Clock Tower. This L-shaped tower is atop a building that once housed the Sohmer & Company piano factory, which was built in 1886, when the area was spotted with 40 QUEENS IN YOUR POCKET • www.itsinqueens.com
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