Flushing Meadows

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

There they stand on the Flushing Bay Promenade just north of Citifield… two odd fiberglass rain shelters that appear to me resembling the Vampire Squid, which has webbing between its…

This rather plain, prosaic 8-sided park lamppost is somewhat ubiquitous in some parks. It was introduced as a complement, or substitute, to the shorter Type B Henry Bacon lamp, introduced…

It’s not often that I repeat a tour just a few months after giving it originally, but there was a good chance repeating the World’s Fair Remnants tour from July…

In March, while scouting the upcoming July 13th ForgottenTour in Flushing Meadows, it might as well have been Kadath in the Cold Waste, as we tracked the vast windswept wilderness…