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Kissena Velodrome, the last bike track in New York
Flushing, Queens, New York
Original uploader was Zouf at en.wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Robert Moses had a cycling track built at Kissena Park in 1962, and it hosted the 1964 Olympic trials while the World's Fair ran a few miles west. Local riders took five of the eight places on the United States team. It is the only velodrome left in New York City. The surrounding park was a commercial tree nursery run by Samuel Parsons in the nineteenth century, which is why some of its trees have no business being in Queens.
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