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}}Valley Stream State Park is a {{convert|97|acre|ha|adj=on}} state parkBOOK, 2014 New York State Statistical Yearbook,weblink The Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government, 2014, Section O: Environmental Conservation and Recreation, Table O-9, 674, April 2, 2016,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20150916082616weblink">weblink September 16, 2015, dead, mdy-all, located in the Incorporated Village of Valley Stream, in Nassau County, on Long Island, in New York, United States. It is one of three state parks located within the Town of Hempstead.

Park description

Valley Stream State Park is a day-use facility, convenient to the Southern State Parkway (exit 15A). The park offers a nature trail, cross-country skiing, a playground and playing fields, horseshoe, volleyball, basketball, and bocce ball courts, picnic tables and pavilions, fireplaces and grills, and recreation programs. Pets are not permitted.WEB, Valley Stream State Park,weblink April 2, 2016, New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation, Like Hempstead Lake State Park, Valley Stream State Park contained Cornell's Pond, a feeder reservoir for the Ridgewood Reservoir.

History

This park opened in 1928 together with Southern State Parkway, Hempstead Lake State Park, Belmont Lake State Park, and Heckscher State Park. Initially the park included Cornell's Pond, which had a freshwater beach that charged an admission fee of 10 cents. Crowded and unsanitary conditions led local residents to lobby for its closing in 1947. In 1958, the state to transferred the park's southern portion with this pond to the Village of Valley Stream. It reopened as the village-operated Arthur J. Hendrickson Park.WEB, Kadinsky, Sergey,weblink Valley Stream, NY; Hidden Waters Blog, 2019-01-09, 2019-09-13,

See also

• List of New York state parks
• Long Island State Park Commission
• Robert Moses

References

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External links

{{Commons category|Valley Stream State Park}}

• New York State Parks: Valley Stream State Park
• Hidden Waters of NYC: Valley Stream

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