Lichtenstein in New York by Mark P. Bernardo

Author:Mark P. Bernardo
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781938901690
Publisher: Roaring Forties Press
Published: 2017-02-21T00:00:00+00:00

Glimpsing the Future in Queens

New York announced itself loudly as the world’s cultural leader in 1964 with the New York World’s Fair, held in Flushing Meadows Park in the borough of Queens, today the site of Citi Field, home of the New York Mets (as well as Citi Field’s predecessor, the now-demolished Shea Stadium) and the USTA National Tennis Center, host of the US Open. The area had been a massive garbage dump until the 1930s, when one of New York’s most famous master architects, Robert Moses, tried to use the 1939 World’s Fair to create a vast recreational facility on nearly 900 acres at Flushing Meadows. The fair did not generate the finances needed to finish the project he’d envisioned, and Moses saw the 1964 fair as a chance to finish what he’d started.

The 1964 World’s Fair was mired in controversy. Many of the fair organizers’ plans, such as charging rent to exhibitors and holding the fair for two years rather than the usual one, were against the regulations of the Bureau of International Exhibitors (BIE), the body that sanctions world’s fairs. Moses and the organizers brushed off the BIE’s objections and went ahead with their plans without the bureau’s blessing (the United States was not a BIE member nation), ensuring that participation by other nations would be minimal.

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