Queens County Farm Museum is in the middle of a $10 million renovation, and the borough's only working farm is staying open through the construction.
The project, first reported by QNS.com, covers the historic 47-acre Floral Park site that NYC Parks and the Queens County Farm Museum Association have run as a living history farm since the 1970s. The farm's own capital pipeline runs through NYC Parks capital projects, the agency that funds and tracks municipal park and landmark work citywide.
Projects at this scale on city parkland typically move through NYC Parks' capital construction division, with design and construction contracts registered through the Comptroller's Checkbook NYC system and solicited via the City Record. For GCs and historic-restoration subs, a working farm site means phased construction — the kind of job where you sequence around animals, crops, and visitor access instead of shutting a site down wall to wall.
Nothing in the public reporting names a GC, a bid number, or a completion date yet. For a historic preservation sub or site-logistics-minded GC, that's the thing to track: a $10 million job on occupied city parkland doesn't stay quiet on the City Record for long.
What to do now: watch the City Record and NYC Parks' capital projects page for a Queens County Farm Museum solicitation or an already-awarded contract number, and if this already has one, FOIL it — a live farm job is exactly the kind of phased-access, occupied-site work that separates contractors who can price it right from those who can't.