Evening Under the Sphere 2025: Thank You from the Alliance for Flushing Meadows Corona Park!

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A huge, sincere thank you to everyone who supported our annual fundraiser on September 30th.

Because of your generosity and passion for this indispensable park, we were able to raise over $204,000! This is our biggest fundraising total ever and came alongside the largest crowd in attendance for Evening Under the Sphere in the Alliance’s history. 

The proceeds from this event will go on to fund another year of free public programming, youth workforce development programs, and essential maintenance operations in Flushing Meadows Corona Park. You can read more about the work we do at this link. 

Here are our corporate sponsors, whose generous contributions compose over 90% of our Evening Under the Sphere proceeds: 

And our individual sponsors:

  • Andrew Hollweck and Bomi Kim (Maple Sponsors)

  • Matt Gewolb

  • Michelle Villagomez

  • Beth Shaw

  • Sharon Levy

Thank you to all of these supporters, new and returning, for their commitment to World’s Park! 

If you’re interested in joining this group, it’s not too late to give. The Alliance is always looking to partner with community leaders and businesses that want to make an impact in Queens. Reach out to Julio Garcia, our Director of Development at julio@allianceforfmcp.org to learn more. 
Evening Under the Sphere is our way of celebrating the wonderful accomplishments of this Queens community each year. In particular, we recognized the contributions of three impressive community leaders last week: 

  • Patty Ornst, Director of State and Local Government Affairs at Delta Air Lines, and Tom Russell, Founder of Governors Ball Music Festival, both received the Freedom of the Human Spirit Award

  • Jean Silva, President of the Flushing Meadows Corona Park Conservancy and member of Community Board 6, received the Claire Shulman Award for Public Service

These three honorees exemplify everything we love about Queens and the civic spirit we are so proud of here in Flushing Meadows Corona Park.

Because of our intrepid friends at the Queens Night Market, Evening Under the Sphere has some of the best food New York City has to offer. Here are the 2025 vendors who made this year’s event the most delicious one yet: 

  • DiLena's (Italian Sweets)

  • Treat Yourself Jerk (Jamaican Jerk Chicken)

  • Ella Spice (Grenadian Food)

  • Hong Kong Street Food  

  • Arepalicious (Colombian Arepas)

  • Super Chori (Argentine Sandwiches)

  • Bstro (Taiwanese Popcorn Chicken)

  • Tacos El Guero (Mexican Tacos)

  • Eemas (Hawaiian Musubi)

  • Lettuce Meat (Korean BBQ)

  • Matylda's Food (Polish Pierogies)

  • Chomu Chacha (Indian Roomali Rolls)

  • Pizza Bagel NYC

  • Wine by Monsieur Touton 

  • Beer by Singlecut Beersmiths 

Live music was brought to us by the Hina Oikawa Jazz Band and Jet City. Their musical stylings help us ensure that Evening Under the Sphere is as fun as it is tasty. 

Check out the slideshow with some of our favorite pictures, and be on the lookout for our Giving Tuesday campaign highlighting additional ways to support our park.

See you next year! 

Photos by Greg Kessler, @gregkesslerphoto