Flushing Meadows

Flushing Meadows has come along way since referred to by F Scott Fitzgerald in The Great Gatsby as a "valley of ashes." It hosted two world's fairs, first in 1939 and again in 1964, and was home to the first United Nations until the iconic headquarters was completed on the edge of Manhattan. Today the area is a sprawling park, containing the Queens Museum of Art, the New York Hall of Science, the Queens Zoo, Botanical Garden, and several stadiums, as well as several artifacts from its heyday.


The New York Hall of Science.


Mercury-Atlas and Gemini-Titan rockets.


Arthur Ashe Stadium and Forms in Transit sculpture.


The Great Hall, built for the 1964 World's Fair.


Geodesic domed aviary.


Free Form sculpture.


The Unisphere, centerpiece of the 1964 World's Fair.


The New York State Pavilion and observatory towers.


The derelict pavilion is used as storage space by the adjacent Queens Theater in the Park.


The Unisphere symbolizes "Man's Achievements on a Shrinking Globe in an Expanding Universe."




Panorama of the City of New York at the Queens Museum of Art.


Brooklyn.


The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge.


Manhattan.


Poster art depicting the Trylon and Perisphere, the central symbols from the 1939 World's Fair.




A relic from the 1939 World's Fair.


Scale model of the 1964 World's Fair.