Photo by Adrian Childress
The Queens County Farm Museum celebrated its 40th annual County Fair from Sept. 8 to Sept. 10, and numerous Queens residents and leaders — including Mayor Eric Adams — were on hand to take part in the festivities.
The three-day event kicked off Sept. 8 with a ribbon-cutting ceremony. Some of the notable individuals in attendance included Mayor Adams, Queens Borough President Donovan Richards, State Senator John Liu, Council member Linda Lee, Assemblyman Edward Braunstein and Queens County Farm Museum Executive Director Jennifer Walden Weprin.
In addition to the ribbon-cutting, there was a live DJ and Motown concert at the farm to celebrate the beginning of the fair. Farm co-curator Malik Work greeted fair-goers with some of Queens’ favorite sonic selections before Dr. K’s Motown Revue performed joyful and soul-warming offerings.
The County Fair also marked the introduction of East Coast Street Tacos‘ limited edition 40th anniversary apple cider margarita and souvenir cup. This was just one of many different local culinary offerings present there throughout the weekend. Other food vendors included Teriyaki Plus, CBao Asian Buns, TaDa Noodles, Tania’s Kitchen, Our Green Acres Corn, Ed’s Italian Sausage and Polish, Long Island Seafood, Cousins Maine Lobster, Wafels and Dinges, Kelli’s Funnel Cake and more.
“Fourty never looked so good!,” Weprin said. “There is something for everyone at the 40th Annual Queens County Fair between the opening Motown concert, two full days of live entertainment on the Main Stage and the Family Entertainment Tent, plus the Taste NY Pavilion, all of our community collaborations and free mac and cheese. We are so excited to welcome everyone down on the farm.”
The weekend featured a full lineup of traditional county fair programming, including the Amazing Maize Maze, NYC’s only corn maze, sponsored by Con Edison. The maze was shaped in the theme of a 1954 Ford tractor.
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