From the Queens Courier:The future of another former fair structure is not as certain -- the New York State Pavilion and its watchtowers that were made famous to new generations in the hit movie “Men in Black.” Although it remains standing, the building shows many obvious signs of wear and tear.
“I’m sorry about the New York State Pavilion because it just doesn’t seem safe,” Marshall said. “We would all like it restored, but we’ve got to be sure it’s safe.”
Bill Cotter, the co-author of two books on the 1964 World’s Fair, recalls seeing the pavilion used as a place to store garbage while he was in college and said that it is a shame what has happened to the building.
“It’s real sad to see it rusted and decaying,” he said. “That building needs an awful lot of work. I’d hate to see it being taken down.”
Lewandowski said that last year some emergency stabilization work was done on the structure. During the winter, with the help of funding from Unisphere, Inc., Lewandowski said a study of the Pavilion was conducted. The Parks Department is currently analyzing the data. Lewandowski said that the Department will meet to discuss the study and determine what should be done with the Pavilion.
19 comments:
Maybe hanging Ms. Lewandowki upside down by her ankles from it would make a worthwhile tourist attraction!
It's deplorable but like this for 20 years - tear it down - shadow of it's heyday.
How about tearing down that useless money pit that's already eaten up tens of millions of taxpayers'dollars to deliver little more than theatrical tripe..."Theater In The Dark".
Ooops... but then somebody's favorite "pussy boy" might be out of an extremely lucrative patronage job.
He sure is a pussy boy. and a certain assemblyman from eastern queens loves to cuddle up with him I hear.
This was built as a temporary attraction... Not to remain standing for 50 years!!!
Enough!! Tear it down
All of what remains from the '64 Fair was meant to be temporary. But the City found the means and motive to preserve and adaptively reuse the other structures.
What adaptive reuse could there be fir an outdoor map of Ny state???
As much as I would like to find some purpose for these structures, I think it would cost way too much to repair and mantain them. I live in Near-by Forest Hills and pass these often onthe Grand central, they are an eyesore. Just tear them down and open the space back to the park. The End.
Several uses were suggested, including a museum.
how about a school?
What a CROCK of sh*t.
They DIDNT stabilize anything.
..Just yanked some 1964 PAR lighting fixtures, Globes, AC compressor cap on the low tower (Robert Moses personal VIP bar Spankys), Sky Streak elevators.
...Oh that $25,000 Solar powered RED LED Beacon takes the cake.
To stabilize the crowns support columns pile caps it the perimeter wall, mezzanine and map has to go to dig and backfill.
IF needed !
I know the wall is shot, all of Manhatten and most of Queens is gone from the map filled in with cement patches.
-Joe
Several uses were suggested, including a museum.
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The sections of map that took months to restored were tossed back on the ground, broken, left open to the elements, till photo were posted HERE !!
The rubble was qickley packed slapped together in wooden PROP crates so these bullshitters could to pretend !
They sit in leaky storage behind the wall near the theater
WHY NOT TEAR IT DOWN AND LET THE ILLEAGAL ALLIENS USE IT AS A SOCCER FEILD. THE LORD KNOWS THEY ARE IN THE PARK EVERYDAY PLAYING SOCCER WHILE WE AMERICANS AND DOCUMENTED PEOPLE GO TO WORK. GIVE THEM A SOCCER FEILD. WE GIVE THEM EVERYTHING ELSE?
Take a look at Central Park, Van Cortland Park, Prospect Park.
Now take a look at Flushing Meadows.
Queens is run by 2nd stringers with 3rd rate programs.
The problem is with half the electorate clueless seniors, and two thirds of the population non-civic participating immigrants, there is not a damn thing you can do about this.
AND "THEATER IN THE DARK" WAS LIKEWISE BUILT AS A TEMPORARY ATTRACTION!
TEAR IT DOWN so it stops eating up more of us taxpayers' dollars to maintain!
showcase for has-been "talent"?
The city should have bought the Flushing RKO Keith's in 1986 before it was sold to Tommy Huang for only 3.4 million dollars.
That would have been truly an attraction in itself and better located than that "hinterland opera house" in the middle of a "park"!
H-m-m-m.....let's tally up the box office receipts for "Theater In The Dark' and match them against the astronomical annual salary of its director.
Then we'll see if Jeffrey Rosenstock is worth his weight in shit!
As long as we've got that meat headed shit sack sitting in Queens Borough Hall we'll continue to see some more waffling on the pavilion.
Pass the maple syrup Helen!
How do these people get elected?
Uh...I guess you voters put them in with the clubhouse's help!
IT'S TIME FOR YOU TO WISE UP A LITTLE FOLKS!
How I remember that beautiful World's Fair in 1964 when everything seemed possible in America. Where did our optimism go? What happened to our courage? Where is our pride?
Someday I hope that we reclaim the guts that our parents and grandparents had.
Not with the likes of a Joe Crowley
as grand masturbator of the Queens KKK (Krowley's Klubhouse Krooks)
it's amazing the city wants to take land from willets point but they can't fix up the park? i see special interest here!!!!
helen marshall, mayor, quinn and all the city council people have to go. time for change!
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