From the Daily News:The New York State Pavilion, a crumbling yet iconic relic of the 1964 World's Fair in Queens, won approval Tuesday as a state landmark.
The designation opens it to desperately needed rehab grants.
In what historians hailed as a major step toward saving a long-neglected symbol of Queens, the state Board for Historic Preservation voted unanimously to add the concrete-and-steel behemoth to the state Register of Historic Places.
The board also nominated the iconic structure in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park as a national landmark, citing how it "continues to convey the essence of the experience of visitors to the fair."
Both state and federal designations would allow the city, which owns the pavilion and is studying its structural stability, to apply for grants to spruce it up.
It also allows the city to demolish it, but let's not mention that. It's funny how all these news stories wrote their stories as though it was landmarked by the state and therefore protected from demolition.
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it can still be torn down? thank god. there are plenty of historically significant structures in queens that should be saved at any cost. this isn't any of them
It also allows the city to demolish it, but let's not mention that. It's funny how all these news stories wrote their stories as though it was landmarked by the state and therefore protected from demolition.
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This is interesting buy why did we have to get this info from a blog?
Pratt? HDC? Landmarks Conservency? we know the ususal suspects? Why arn't you writing letters in support of preseravtion in Queens.
You take our money to sustain landmark communities? You ask for us for donations for your programs.
it can still be torn down? thank god. there are plenty of historically significant structures in queens that should be saved at any cost. this isn't any of them
Spoken like a true asshole troll who should have stayed in school until he or she can use grammar properly.
And with Helen Marshall reelcted, don't expect any improvements. At least Leavitt had the abandoned otwers in the background on his flyers.
The citys going to get federal money to replace it with a cheap grave marker.
No doubt with the parks maple leaf logo. I said this months ago.
I spoke to the engineer who built the theatre expansion.
80 million to restore
40 million to demolish.
Donald Trump wanted no part of it after viewing all the strings the city attached to it
The good thing- Marshall paid to have the boathouse restored and construction begins this weekend.
Marshall likley remembers the boathouse from the 1939 Worlds Fair. It likley means something to her.
Anbody born post 1960 is out of luck. Whats with all the broken concrete, soccer fields and bums in that park ?
Its starting to look like the Bowery in 1977
Philip Johnson. Thats why you save it.
I miss the Aquacade!
Pavilion resembles the State - leave it alone - do nothing exactly like NYS.
Save it, restore it, and the towers.
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