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In woodside ,queens, there are many park like Big Bush Playground,Lawrence Virgilio Playground ,this parks are beautiful and comfortable for playing with friends .big Bush Playground is located at 61st and 64th Streets, Queens Boulevard, and the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. In 1936, Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia (1882-1947, mayor 1934-1945) designated this land as parkland.In December 1936, the Regional Plan Association recommended the construction of a link between the Gowanus Parkway and the Triborough Bridge.Today, Bush Park’s has two baseball fields, climbing structures, swings, slides, handball courts and sitting areas. People of neighborhood, baseball and soccer youth leagues use the recreational facilities daily. A flagpole, lampposts, benches, and trees decorate Big Bush Playground. Lawrence Virgilio Playground is located between 39th Road and 39th Drive and running from 52nd to 54th Streets in Queens. It used to call windmuller park by the name of a successful banking industry owner. In 2002 the park’s playground was named for Lawrence Virgilio (1962-2001), a New York City Firefighter who died in the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 .It has open-air stage, a renovated ADA-accessible comfort station, mini-pool, exercise track, pathways, fencing, basketball courts, and new exercise equipment which help neighbor people to enjoy their off day.

Windmuller park offers fitness activities and recreation every Thursday through August as a boot camp from 9:00-10:00am. This park was named of the preminent banker Mr. Louis Windmuller. In 1936 Windmuller's children donated the family's land to the city use it as a park and it was develop shortly after under the Federal Works Administration relief work program.