Learning to Fly at Torsney Park

Collection: Queens Memory Collection at the Archives at Queens Library

Date: 2017 Material: Essay manuscript Dimension: 8.5 x 11 inches; 2 pages

Creator: Laurie Beckoff Wellman Identifier: aql:33645 qmp-wlb-essay-torsney-playground qmp-wlb-essay-torsney-playground.pdf

Description: Laurie (Beckoff) Wellman describes her experience learning to take risks through play at Torsney park (now the Torsney/Lou Lodati Playground) in Sunnyside Queens in the 1950's.

Title : Learning to Fly at Torsney Park

Collection : aql:13844; aql:33733

Creator : Laurie Beckoff Wellman

Date : 2017

Summary/Description : Laurie (Beckoff) Wellman describes her experience learning to take risks through play at Torsney park (now the Torsney/Lou Lodati Playground) in Sunnyside Queens in the 1950's.

Subject : Playgrounds; Children; City children; Wellman, Laurie Beckoff

Relation : Queens Memory Collection at the Archives at Queens Library

Rights : Contact digitalarchives@queenslibrary.org for research and reproduction requests.

Coverage : Torsney/Lou Lodati Playground, Sunnyside (New York, N.Y.) Sunnyside (New York, N.Y.) Queens (New York, N.Y.)

Type : Essay manuscript

Format : Essay manuscript; 8.5 x 11 inches; 2 pages

Identifier : aql:33645 qmp-wlb-essay-torsney-playground qmp-wlb-essay-torsney-playground.pdf