NYC wants to turn an old train track into a park with ziplines and ping pong

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By hrichmondMar 27, 2014, 1:27 pm16 pts
Queens residents are lobbying for 3.5 miles of a former train line to get new life as a tricked-out public park, complete with ziplines, ping-pong tables, and “a giant slide that would wrap around an old railway tower.” (The former LIRR Rockaway Beach Branch hasn’t been used since 1962; it’s a mess of…

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