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Corona, New York City — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Corona is a Queens neighborhood dating from 1854, spread between Flushing Meadows-Corona Park and the avenues running toward Jackson Heights.
About Corona
Where to stay in Corona
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Five thoroughfares carry the traffic. Hotels gather along Roosevelt Avenue and Northern Boulevard, the two busiest of them, and more beds sit west in Jackson Heights and north in East Elmhurst, a short way outside the neighborhood proper. The park side lies east.
Basing yourself near 108th Street or Junction Boulevard puts Flushing Meadows-Corona Park and the run on toward Flushing within easy reach.
About Corona
What are the main landmarks in Corona?
Two churches anchor the older blocks. St. James Church and the Reformed Church of Newtown carry the oldest names on the map, standing among the shops and houses that line Corona Avenue and Roosevelt Avenue. Flushing Meadows-Corona Park opens east.
Its ground carries the neighborhood's name and gives Corona its largest stretch of green, reached over Junction Boulevard or along 108th Street.
What is the history of Corona?
Corona dates from 1854. The Reformed Church of Newtown keeps an older parish name for this ground, and the streets that came after it filled in toward Roosevelt Avenue and Northern Boulevard. Roosevelt Avenue became the through line.
Junction Boulevard and 108th Street carried the growth east toward Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, and the built-up blocks ran up against Jackson Heights and Elmhurst on the far side.
Where is Corona?
The borders read as a ring: Flushing Meadows-Corona Park east, Jackson Heights and Elmhurst west, Forest Hills and Rego Park south, East Elmhurst north.
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Updated September 2026