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By Ellen Yan
Special to Newsday
On a recent spring evening, two men caught fish from Willow Lake, seals splashed at the Queens Zoo and tennis enthusiasts played into the night at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center.
Perhaps best known as the home of the 1939 and 1964 World's Fairs, Flushing Meadows-Corona Park boasts attractions that extend beyond its storied past. The Queens Night Market, which opened for the season earlier this month, has grown since it started with $5 servings of food in 2015. Each April, the ground under the park's Okame cherry trees resembles a pink carpet. And worshippers gather regularly to pray to the Virgin Mary at...