WAY back in 2015, the Long Island Garden Railway Society created several mock-ups of World’s Fair 1964-65 exhibitions and displayed them in the Queens Botanical Garden in Flushing, which I…
World’s Fair
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A recent jaunt took me into Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, where I noticed that the set of pavement mosaics installed honoring the first and second Fairs were in worse shape than…
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As I have lamented in Forgotten New York before, New York City is much better at eliminating transit lines than building them; during my lifetime, elevateds such as Third Avenue…
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A pair of unusually-shaped structures along the pedestrian walkway on Flushing Bay north of Citifield, now used mainly as relief from the hot sun in sumer, were originally designed for…