A bit short on time today, so I thought I would do a short item on the unique Flushing Meadows-Corona Park signage, which uses different fonts than other fonts used…
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I couldn’t get to everything on last week’s World’s Fair Remnants tour, so here’s one item we overlooked. Located on a rather out-of-the-way path between the Hall of Science and…
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By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent In the southeastern corner of the central core of Flushing Meadows-Corona Park is a set of mounds with footstones citing biblical verses under the…
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It might be surprising to know that most of the world’s countries did not have exhibits at the ’64-65 World’s Fair in Flushing Meadows. Not because of any particular animus or…
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I really wish the old man had gotten a photo of the World’s Fair 1964-1965 monorail with some actual cars in the picture, but I’m working with what I have…
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Engine #260 idles at the Shea Stadium platform on a 1999 fantrip. The EMD GP38-2 is a four-axle diesel-electric locomotive of the road switcher type built by General Motors, Electro-Motive…
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An ALCO “power car” #614 idles at the Shea Stadium Long Island Rail Road platform in September 1999, a place it rarely visited, as the Port Washington Branch on which the station…
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I recently came across some snaps taken during the Dawn of Forgotten New York in 1999 — in particular, from a fan trip from September 1999 employing LIRR MP-72 cars, which…
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About 25 years ago, special signs were commissioned by the NYC Parks department for Flushing Meadows-Corona Park. Whereas other parks use squarish, brown signs with Palatino lettering and the leaf…
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When you schedule a tour on March 28th, you expect 50 to 55-degree weather, but there’s always the chance for something else. FNY’s third tour of Flushing Meadows Corona Park…
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Designed by Philip Johnson, the NY State Pavilion was among the most striking buildings in a Fair full of them. It consists of the “Tent of Tomorrow” consisting of 16…
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I haven’t done a whole lot on NYC Parks Department signage — park name signs are usually in brown with the leaf symbol Parks uses as well as lettering in…