From the Queens Chronicle:The mosaic tile discs encircling Flushing Meadows Corona Park’s Dinkins Circle are falling to bits — and in some cases they may not return.
The Parks Department has cordoned off the tile disks, which commemorate the park’s two World’s Fairs, to keep pedestrians from continuing to trample on them.
“Some areas that cannot be repaired will be replaced with hex block pavers,” said a Parks Department spokesman. “Cars are not allowed into David Dinkins Circle to prevent further damage to the mosaics.”
7 comments:
To name the area "Dinkins Circle" is a cruel insult to the FMCP users. Dinkins bears heavy responsibilty for giving away part of the Park to the USTA.
It's time to face reality, you crusaders.
Move them indoors to the Queens Museum, already!
They will never be repaired. The elements will destroy them, then there will be no need to do so.
Isn't that the real game plan?
Renaming a circle after David Dinkins- easy. Repairing public art in FMCP- "We don't have money for that."
It's Queens.
'nuff said!
Like the millstones at Queens Plaza .... somewhere in that jungle (we hope)
What bullshit.
The city is being CHEAP with Queens.
Any ceramic company can reproduce those missing colored pixels and you dont have to go to Italy.
Art students can do the work the stupid Queens park workers can't
They "offending mosaics" are being paved over to rid Queen's of its history and heritage. (just like fat-boy now in a cemetery)
You can bet your sweet bippi Robert Moses ugly smug mosaic is being restored with pixels removed removed from others !!!
To add those mosaics were not damaged from "people trampling" on them. That's pure BS !!
They were damaged by YEARS of "NEGLECT abuse and and lack maintenance, throwing salts and chlorides when it snows, the USTA driving heavy equipment over them. I even seen USTA sponsors like Nissan place new model cars on stages with the footings on the mosaics.
This neglect has made it easy for tourists and souvineer hunters to simply kneel down and make off with thousands of pixels.
Same thing with the NYSP
Every lighting fixture, Texico star and almost all of Manhattan and Queens is missing from the New York State pavilions map.
These people are lying to the news media and public !!!
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