NY State Pavilion Gets Landmarked

Photo: SeanieDawg

The New York State Pavilion, just one part of the decaying 1964 World's Fair in Queens, won state landmark approval! A designation that the Daily News says "opens it to desperately needed rehab grants." (Plans to do something with the site have been in the works for years.) It's also been nominated as a national landmark. In related news, Jenny 8. Lee pens a breathless piece on city landmark status granted to 100 middle-class residential buildings in Queens and on Staten Island; "The bulk of these buildings, 96, are modest century-old three-story buildings in the Ridgewood North Historic District." It looks like everything is coming up Queens today! Perhaps they'll take another gander at Kerouac's old house.

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By Jen Carlson in Arts & Entertainment on September 16, 2009 5:46 PM

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edward_g_robincat

It's also where Dorothy first shows up in "The Wiz". (They should restore it to *THAT* condition!!)

Seriously, this is one the most interesting pieces of architecture in the city. To hell with the Queens haters. I hope they restore Texaco's terrazzo map of NY state, which was the floor of the main pavilion building. (Last I heard the cracked chunks had been taken by archaeologists at U. Penn.)

Potty Boy

Unfortunately, I was too young to have seen it. By the time I arrived in the late 70s and wandered about the park, it was already an empty space and a dilapidated structure. In my youth, my friends and I would wander past, thinking there were devil worshippers at night.

Mr. Shankly

Didn't Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith blow the crap out of those things?

Potty Boy

K: We agreed and concealed all the evidence of their landing.

J: So these are real flying saucers... and the World's Fair

was a cover-up for their landing?

K: Why else hold it in Queens?

LMAO.

dadoc

Anybody who is old enough to have been to the 64 fair should understand.

Wza

Booo!

So much for condos.

...kidding.

Mr Mel

Nobody how they honor it, it' still ugly.

rcltrh

I love the pavilion and hope they rehab it fully (then open it to the public) so we can once again ride or climb to the top. Such a cool treasure from the future/past it's been a shame/sham that all these years it'e been left to decay while crap all over the city gets landmarked. Hope I live long enough to see it rehabbed.

HOTCUP

zeppelin played a concert there once.. i hope they can rehab it back to that condition.

newsyspice

Actually, the fact that it took THIS LONG for the Pavilion to get landmark status says something about NEW YORK.

I love Flushing Meadows Park. I just there today, riding my bike; I go several times a week. It's a park with a boatload of history that deserves a lot more respect. The land upon which the park was built figures heavily in the Great Gatsby; and both the '39 and '64 World Fairs were absolutely fantastic events heavy with the history of this city and the nation.

Manhattan and Brooklyn are not the only parts of New York City that deserve attention.

I love living in Queens.

NewHCE

The fact that the rusting fair structures and those boring fugly buildings get landmark status does not say much about Queens.

HOTCUP

if only they'd rebuild the fountain of the planets, too.

HOTCUP

the fact that they needed landmark status in order to get rehabilitated says a lot about why they're "fugly" and "rusting".

what would you consider more exciting architecture, exactly?