Queens Night Market set to return to Flushing Meadows Corona Park

The Queens Night Market returns to the Hall of Science for another season of food and fun. Photo courtesy of the Queens Night Market

By Rachel Vick

After a year away due to COVID-19 precautions, the Queens Night Market has announced plans to return to Flushing Meadows Corona Park.

The beloved food fair, located on the grounds outside New York Hall of Science, is scheduled to run from April 17 to Oct. 30.

“Despite the current, tragic surge in pandemic numbers, we’re optimistic we’ll be able to open back up this year, and cautiously hopeful – without being delusional – that it’ll be on schedule in mid-April if the vaccine rollout becomes expedient and efficient,” said Queens Night Market founder John Wang.

“Hopefully the reopening of the Queens Night Market can come to represent a collective sigh of relief or even some small celebration of solidarity among the remarkably diverse lives and communities that make up this city.”

The COVID-19 crisis has devastated many of the market’s vendors, with nearly half halting business, Wang said. 

He said the market has worked to continue the market’s famous low prices while ensuring the vendors can raise the revenue they need to survive. 

Most of the food will remain $5, he said. Twenty vendors from as many countries have already signed on for the spring and summer 2021 season. Visitors will be able to enjoy cultural cuisine from around the world — from Cambodia to Romania, Sudan to Peru and dozens of countries in between.

“Our mission to be NYC’s most affordable, accessible, and diverse community event hasn’t changed, and the affordability aspect might be more important than ever as New York deals with the pandemic’s economic fallout for years to come,” Wang said.

Interested vendors can still apply online.