Corona, Queens: The Armstrong House, Tifereth Israel and Spaghetti Park

The Louis Armstrong House stands at 34-56 107th Street. Its designation report gives the building as "Built 1910; architect, Robert W. Johnson; builder, Thomas Daly," on "Borough of Queens Tax Map Block 1748, Lot 36." The museum's own Visit page says it "is located in Corona, a quiet residential neighborhood in northern Queens, where Louis and Lucille Armstrong chose to make their home for nearly three decades." The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places and designated a National Historic Landmark on May 11, 1976, under reference number 76001265, and was designated a New York City Landmark on December 13, 1988, as Landmark number 1555.

The Louis Armstrong Center is a second, separate building on the same street, at 34-49 107th Street. The museum also names Selma's Place, the donated home of Selma Heraldo, as part of the campus.

Dizzy Gillespie's residence is at 105-19 37th Avenue, also given as 34-68 106th Street, and the Landmarks Preservation Commission's report on it says it is "Located in Corona, Queens." That report also sets out how the neighborhood came to hold the households it did. It records that "There was no racial covenant on the property at 105-19 37th Avenue (aka 34-68 106th Street)," and that "This was possible in large part due to the lack of racial covenants in most of Corona." It also records the other half of the picture: "However by 1937, all of Corona south of Astoria Boulevard was subject to Redlining, imposed by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA), insurance companies, and mortgage lending agencies," and that the Homeowners Loan Corporation "outlined Corona in red and described it as 'Hazardous.'" A Landmarks Preservation Commission report records that in 1890 African Americans in Queens numbered 3,582.

Corona and Elmhurst share their early history. A Landmarks Preservation Commission report writes of "Newtown (now Corona and Elmhurst)" and dates the Wandownock Fire, Hook & Ladder 1 to its founding there in 1843. The name itself is unsettled. One commission report states that "Newtown became part of Queens County in 1853, and it was not until 1872 that the name Corona (meaning 'crown' of Queens County) came into common use for the village"; another report by the same body puts it a year later, writing that "it was not until 1873 that the name Corona" came into use. The two reports give different years for the same change.

The Edward E. Sanford House is at 102-45 47th Avenue; its designation report also calls it "the 102-45 47th Avenue House," and names the man both "Edward E. Sanford" and "Edward R. Sanford" in the same document. Congregation Tifereth Israel is at 109-18 54th Avenue, and its report calls it "The oldest active synagogue in Corona." The firehouse of Fire Engine Company 289 and Ladder Company 138 is at 97-28 43rd Avenue, described by the commission as "one of Corona's most prominent public buildings."

William F. Moore Park occupies the ground bounded by 108th Street and 51st and 52nd Avenues, in ZIP 11368 and Community Board 4. NYC Parks records that it was "Originally known as Corona Heights Triangle," gives it Park ID Q029, and records the nickname "Spaghetti Park"; the sign in the park spells the honoree's name "Wiliam F. Moore." Corona Golf Playground, Q450, is "Bounded by 109th Street, 46th Avenue, and 47th Avenue." Hinton Park, Q410, lies in Community Board 3 and is bounded by Pell Avenue, 34th Avenue, and 113th and 114th Streets. National Plaza, Q172, is the 0.04-acre Parks property at the intersection of National Street and Roosevelt Avenue; it was renamed National Plaza in 1985 and is a different public space from the pedestrian plaza the Department of Transportation later built at the same intersection.

Queens Public Library runs the Corona branch at 38-23 104 Street and the Langston Hughes Community Library and Cultural Center at 100-01 Northern Boulevard, both printed by the library as Corona, NY 11368. Elmcor's recreation building is at 33-16 108th Street; the organization's name is a portmanteau of East Elmhurst and Corona, and a landmark report records its plaque reading "East Elmhurst Corona Area. Building a Better Community." Park Side Restaurant is at 107-01 Corona Avenue, which its own site places "in the heart of Corona, Queens." Wikipedia gives the Lemon Ice King of Corona at 52-02 108th Street and dates it to 1944, and says of Tiffany's favrile glass that it "was manufactured at the Tiffany factory located at 96–18 43rd Avenue in Corona, Queens from 1901 to 1932."

Corona borders Flushing Meadows–Corona Park to the east. NYC Parks writes that "This park gets its name from two adjacent communities, Flushing and Corona."

Wikipedia gives Corona's subway service as the IRT Flushing Line, along Roosevelt Avenue. It gives the locale of the 103rd Street–Corona Plaza station as Corona and places it at 103rd Street and Roosevelt Avenue; it gives the same locale for the 111th Street station, at 111th Street and Roosevelt Avenue.

At the western edge, the Junction Boulevard station stands at Junction Boulevard and Roosevelt Avenue. Wikipedia's locale field for that station names Corona, Elmhurst and Jackson Heights together, and Junction Boulevard is the Corona–Elmhurst line: it is a boundary station shared with the neighborhoods on either side rather than Corona's own.

Roosevelt Avenue is also the administrative seam between the neighborhood's two community districts. For the mail, Wikipedia places a post office, the Corona A Station, at 103-28 Roosevelt Avenue, and records that a post office named Elmhurst Station, at 59-01 Junction Boulevard, serves part of Corona.