Showing posts with label NYC. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NYC. Show all posts
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Monday, May 26, 2008
Sunday, April 20, 2008
Flushing Meadows Corona Park, World's Fair
The Unisphere, commissioned to celebrate the beginning of the space age, was conceived and constructed as the Theme Symbol of the 1964/1965 New York World's Fair. The Theme of the World's Fair was "Peace Through Understanding" and the Unisphere represented the theme of global interdependence. It was dedicated to "Man's Achievements on a Shrinking Globe in an Expanding Universe."
On May 10, 1995, the Unisphere was given official landmark status by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. It is the only officially designated landmark in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park. It is the "unofficial" symbol of the Borough of Queens, NY.
The rotting hulk of the now-roofless Tent of Tomorrow and the Observation Towers of the Pavilion of the 1964 World's Fair. Under the Tent of Tomorrow, a terrazzo map of NY State is a broken irreparable shambles. A grass-roots effort is underway to restore the building as an Air & Space Museum.
The New York City Building was built to house the New York City Pavilion at the 1939 World’s Fair, where it housed displays about municipal agencies. The building was centrally located, being directly adjacent to the great icons of the Fair, the Trylon and Perisphere, and it was one of the few buildings created for the Fair that were intended to be permanent. It is now the only surviving building from the 1939/40 Fair. After the World’s Fair, the building became a recreation center for the newly created Flushing Meadows Corona Park. The north side of the building, now the Queens Museum, housed a roller rink and the south side offered an ice rink, as it still does today.
This building was also home to the United Nations from 1946 through 1950, and the place where UNICEF was created.
Click here for further information on the history of the New York City Building.
On May 10, 1995, the Unisphere was given official landmark status by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. It is the only officially designated landmark in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park. It is the "unofficial" symbol of the Borough of Queens, NY.
The rotting hulk of the now-roofless Tent of Tomorrow and the Observation Towers of the Pavilion of the 1964 World's Fair. Under the Tent of Tomorrow, a terrazzo map of NY State is a broken irreparable shambles. A grass-roots effort is underway to restore the building as an Air & Space Museum.
The New York City Building was built to house the New York City Pavilion at the 1939 World’s Fair, where it housed displays about municipal agencies. The building was centrally located, being directly adjacent to the great icons of the Fair, the Trylon and Perisphere, and it was one of the few buildings created for the Fair that were intended to be permanent. It is now the only surviving building from the 1939/40 Fair. After the World’s Fair, the building became a recreation center for the newly created Flushing Meadows Corona Park. The north side of the building, now the Queens Museum, housed a roller rink and the south side offered an ice rink, as it still does today.
This building was also home to the United Nations from 1946 through 1950, and the place where UNICEF was created.
Click here for further information on the history of the New York City Building.
Sunday, February 17, 2008
Friday, February 08, 2008
January 31-February 7, 2008
The Hell Gate Bridge spans the East River from Astoria in Queens, to Wards Island. It is part a 3.2 mile long railway bridge connecting Queens, Manhattan, and the Bronx. Construction on the bridge was completeled in 1916, and it went unpainted until the 1990's. When it was finally refurbished, this unique color, "Hell Gate Red" was chosen for it.
The Hell Gate Bridge was also the inspiration for the Sydney Harbour Bridge in Australia.
Sunday, January 20, 2008
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