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 worldâs cultural leader in 1964 with the New York Worldâs 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 Fieldâs 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 Yorkâs most famous master architects, Robert Moses, tried to use the 1939 Worldâs 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 heâd envisioned, and Moses saw the 1964 fair as a chance to finish what heâd started.
The 1964 Worldâs Fair was mired in controversy. Many of the fair organizersâ 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 worldâs fairs. Moses and the organizers brushed off the BIEâs objections and went ahead with their plans without the bureauâs blessing (the United States was not a BIE member nation), ensuring that participation by other nations would be minimal.
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