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Eduardo Kobra’s mural of Alfred Eisenstaedt’s photo, V-J Day in Times Square - New York
Image by Glyn Lowe Photoworks
The High Line is a 1-mile (1.6 km) New York City park built on a 1.45-mile (2.33 km) section of the former elevated freight railroad spur called the West Side Line, which runs along the lower west side of Manhattan; it has been redesigned and planted as an aerial greenway. The High Line Park currently runs from Gansevoort Street, one block below West 12th Street, in the Meatpacking District, up to 30th Street, through the neighborhood of Chelsea to the West Side Yard, near the Javits Convention Center. The recycling of the railway into an urban park has spurred real estate development in the neighborhoods which lie along the line.
More Photos At:
www.glynlowe.com/high_line
Unisphere & Queens Museum of Art
Image by jann_on
1,255-acre park
Created as the site of the 1939 New York World's Fair, on a former dump site known as the Corona Ash Dumps, it also hosted the 1964 New York World's Fair.
Publicly developed by the City of New York, under the oversight of Parks Commissioner Robert Moses.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flushing_Meadows–Corona_Park
www.nycgovparks.org/park-features/virtual-tours/flushing-...
www.nycgovparks.org/parks/fmcp
cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/08/for-protectors-of-f...
Unisphere:
"Designed by landscape architect Gilmore D. Clarke, the Unisphere was donated by the United States Steel Corporation and constructed by the American Bridge Company. . . On May 10, 1995, the Unisphere was given official landmark status by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission."
Fountain reopened in 2010.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unisphere
www.nycgovparks.org/park-features/virtual-tours/flushing-...
Featured in the video for "Melancholia" by William Basinski:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUhimrxosdw
(as well as in many other films etc.)
Queens Museum of Art:
Architect: Aymar Embury II
Opened: 1939
Renovated 1964 by Daniel Chait.
Renovated in 1994 by Rafael Viñoly.
Expansion scheduled in 2013, under the helm of Grimshaw Architects with Ammann & Whitney as engineers.
"Built to house the New York City Pavilion at the 1939 World’s Fair, where it housed displays about municipal agencies. . . . It is now the only surviving building from the 1939/40 Fair. After the World’s Fair, the building became a recreation center for the newly created Flushing Meadows Corona Park. The north side of the building, now the Queens Museum, housed a roller rink and the south side offered an ice rink. . . . From 1946 to 1950 . . . it housed the General Assembly of the newly formed United Nations. . . . In 1972 the north side of the New York City Building was handed to the Queens Museum of Art (or as it was then known, the Queens Center for Art and Culture)."
The other half of the building was an ice-skating rink from 1939–2009.
www.queensmuseum.org
www.queensmuseum.org/about/aboutbuilding-history
twitter.com/QueensMuseum
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queens_Museum_of_Art
www.facebook.com/QueensMuseum
vimeo.com/queensmuseum
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aymar_Embury_II
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammann_%26_Whitney
grimshaw-architects.com
