NEW YORK -- You can just barely see them through the window of the No. 7 subway as it rattles into the elevated station in Corona, Queens: a gigantic steel sphere, two rocket ships, and towers that ...
This past May 18th, Flushing Meadows Corona Park hosted a 50th anniversary celebration of the 1964 World’s Fair opening with a full day of activities, including tours, rides, food, various concerts, ...
NEW YORK (AP) - Even for a 1964 New York World's Fair that celebrated "The World of Tomorrow," Andy Warhol may have been ahead of his time. His monumental piece commissioned specifically for the fair ...
For the 1964-65 New York World's Fair, the Disney company designed four paviliions, which later they reimagined for Disneyland. In this first volume of a definitive series, historian Andrew Kiste ...
The New York State Pavilion in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park is currently vacant, a lock on its gate allowing only a glimpse of the decayed interior of Philip Johnson's futuristic "Tent of Tomorrow," ...
April 17, 1964. Henry Ford II officially unveils the Ford Mustang at the New York World’s Fair. Strong first-day demand ...
New York’s monorail debuted at the 1964 World’s Fair as a vision of the future. Suspended 40 feet in the air, it wowed visitors with automation and novelty. But behind the spectacle were serious flaws ...