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Flushing Meadows–Corona Park (often referred to as Flushing Meadows Park or simply Flushing Meadows) is a public park in the northern part of Queens in New York City, New York, U.S. It is bounded by I-678 (Van Wyck Expressway) on the east, Grand Central Parkway on the west, Flushing Bay on the north, and Union Turnpike on the south.
In 1935, New York City Parks commissioner Robert Moses selected the then-new Flushing Meadows Park in central Queens for the 1939 New York World's Fair. [5] [6] New York City Board of Transportation (BOT) chairman John H. Delaney convened a group of transit officials and engineers in January 1936 to discuss plans for rapid transit to and from the fairground. [7]
The fair's second and final season ended on October 18, 1965. [85] The World's Fair Corporation mandated that most exhibition buildings in Flushing Meadows Park be demolished within 90 days of the fair's closure, [86] but city officials were negotiating to preserve the New York State and U.S. pavilions. [87]
The Unisphere is a spherical stainless steel representation of the Earth at Flushing Meadows–Corona Park in Queens, New York City, New York.The globe was designed by Gilmore D. Clarke for the 1964 New York World's Fair.
The bus was assumed by the North Shore Bus Company on May 22, 1939. These routes began operation from the terminal under North Shore Bus Company on June 25, 1939, [23] as part of the company's takeover of nearly all routes in Zone D (Jamaica and Southeast Queens). [24] [25] [26] The route was extended to Rockaway Boulevard on July 1, 1939. The ...
[18] [19] In the fall of 1975, the bus route was extended from 72nd Street in Maspeth east to Elmhurst and southeast on Queens Boulevard to Junction Boulevard in Rego Park. On June 25, 1979, seven westbound trips from Rego Park were added between 10:30 p.m. and 1:36 a.m. [ 20 ] On December 11, 1988, the line was relabeled to its current ...
The Queens Museum is located in the New York City Pavilion at Flushing Meadows–Corona Park, [4] designed by architect Aymar Embury II for the 1939 World's Fair. [4] [5] The fair was first announced in 1935, [6] and engineering consultant J. Franklin Bell drew up preliminary plans for the fairground the next year, including a structure for the New York City government. [7]
A fountain at the World's Fair, with the Trylon and Perisphere in the background. The 1939 New York World's Fair took place at Flushing Meadows–Corona Park in Queens, New York, United States, during 1939 and 1940. The fair included pavilions with exhibits by 62 nations, 34 U.S. states and territories, and over 1,300 corporations. The exhibits ...