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See how Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in Queens was transformed by the 1964 World's Fair in rarely-seen vintage photographs from the NYC Parks Photo Archive!
The 1938 New York World's Fair Westinghouse Time Capsule was buried in Flushing Meadow's Park, September 23, 1939, to be opened in 5000 years in the year 6939.
The Parks Department will demolish five mosaics dedicated to the World's Fair despite pleas from Queens preservationists. "Flushing Meadows Corona Park is a public park and I'm hoping they restore ...
Just as IBM and General Motors played outsized roles in the look and feel of the 1964-65 World’s Fair in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, today’s tech giants will be at the forefront of a future ...
A proposal to make Flushing Meadows-Corona Park more green is making some World's Fair historians downright queasy. The dormant Fountains of the Fairs would be ripped up or covered to make way for ...
One of the few remaining World’s Fair artifacts in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park is due to get an upgrade that will bring a “mist garden” to the Queens park.. AMNY reports that the NYC Parks ...
FLUSHING MEADOWS (WABC) -- The long-neglected New York State Pavilion, one of the last remaining structures from the 1964 World's Fair, finally got some much-needed TLC--and a new designation as a ...
Q'Stoner reader Lisa sent along this wonderful photo of herself at the 1964 World's Fair, then revisiting the same spot 50 years later. You can click through to see the full-sized shots. Yesterday, we ...
What happened to the World’s Fair? On April 30th, which marks the 75th anniversary of the 1939 World’s Fair in Flushing Meadows, the question becomes especially poignant. How did the global ...
Preservationists fighting to save tiled mosaics at site of World's Fair in Queens 02:27. NEW YORK -- Since 1964, visitors to Flushing Meadows-Corona Park have gazed up in awe at the Unisphere ...
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