The American Small Craft Association also houses a fleet of sloop-rigged sailboats, used for teaching, racing and recreation by the club's members. Rental boats are available for rowing and paddleboating on Meadow Lake, which feeds northward into the Flushing River and Flushing Bay. The park also features several annual festivals, including the Colombian Independence Day Celebration – one of the largest Latino events in NYC, and the Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival on Meadow Lake, a race of picturesque dragon-like boats, ritually blessed by a Buddhist monk, as they sail in memory of ancient Chinese patriot-poet Qu Yuan who drowned in Ni Lo River. A 66.3-million Pool & Rink sports complex boasts an Olympic-sized public pool with adjustable floor and diving tank, and an indoor ice rink used year-round by recreational and professional skaters. It also hosts a pitch-and-putt golf course (miniature golf), playing fields, picnic areas and bicycle paths. Wedged between the Van Wyck Expressway and the Grand Central Parkway, and stretching from Union Turnpike to Flushing Bay, the park hosts an 84-acre manmade freshwater Meadow Lake and a smaller Willow Lake, which sits in a natural wetlands area. At 1,255 acres, Flushing Meadows is one and a half times the size of Central Park in Manhattan and is home to the New York Mets at Shea Stadium, US Open Tennis, Queens Museum of Art, New York Hall of Science as well as the Queens Botanical Garden, Queens Zoo, Queens Theatre in the Park and the famous Queens landmark, the Unisphere. Once a swamp and ash dumpsite, Flushing Meadows Corona Park is now the largest park in Queens and the second-largest in the City of New York, after Pelham Bay Park in The Bronx.
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