Odds and Ends: Washington Irving, Modern Ruin, Tourist Advice, The Slide
Irving Place is the remarkably pretty street that travels from the south side of Gramercy Park to the less charming
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New York World’s Fair 1964-65
Ruins of the World’s Fair: The New York State Pavilion, or how Philip Johnson’s futuristic architecture was almost forgotten
A little bit Jetsons, a little bit Gladiator, a little bit P.T Barnum. Photo/Marco Catini PODCAST The ruins of the
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Robert Moses rejected this terrifying Margaret Keane painting from hanging at the 1964-65 World’s Fair
The World’s Fair of 1964-65 at Flushing Meadows-Corona Park was a major American event forward-looking in its intent and, in
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A new film about New York State Pavilion, the space-age ruin from the World’s Fair 1964-65
Many cities have turned the sites of World’s Fairs into public places that have endured through the decades. Chicago’s Jackson
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Root for the Mets and help save the World’s Fair Pavilion!
The New York State Pavilion in its prime. (NYPL) The New York Mets owe much to Robert Moses and the
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The religious controversy behind a lonely Roman column just standing around by itself in Flushing Meadows Park
. The second oldest manmade object in New York City — outside, that is, not in a museum or private
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Assorted mishaps from the 1964 New York World’s Fair — in its first month and before it even opened
Certainly Robert Moses expected there to be a few little problems to arise at the opening of the 1964 World’s
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African lions and dinosaurs, musical plastics and electricity: The sights and sounds of the 1964-65 World’s Fair
The World’s Fair of 1964-65 opened fifty years ago today! We visited this unusual New York mega-event on the podcast
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