Corona Plaza, the melting pot of Latin American street food, returns to Queens

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Corona Plaza, the melting pot of Latin American street food, returns to Queens

Against the backdrop of cumbia music playing over a speaker, kids running around with Silly String, old men playing dominoes and the influx of visitors from the nighttime rush, I walked through Corona Plaza for the first time since its reopening. The energy at the street food market was infectious. Closed by sanitation and police officers in July 2023, the long-celebrated market reopened in December on a smaller scale from its original 80 vendor…