{"id":109,"date":"2007-02-08T15:57:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-08T15:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/?p=109"},"modified":"2007-02-08T15:57:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-08T15:57:00","slug":"new-yorkunisphere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/new-yorkunisphere\/","title":{"rendered":"New York\/Unisphere"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Brendan, my son, and the Unisphere<\/span><\/p>\n

My first trip to New York was in 1964, when I was 10 years old, to see the World’s Fair. I traveled from Virginia with my father in a tiny English Ford, and we camped in a state park on Long Island to save money, over an hour away from the city. We spent a couple of days at the World’s Fair, and one day visiting sites in the city like the Empire State Building. The fair made a big impression on me, especially the auto company pavillions, which presented the future as a gleamingly clean environment of high rises, green spaces, and freeways filled with swiftly moving vehicles. The fair was to a great extent a creation of Robert Moses whose efforts to reshape New York with high rises, green spaces, and freeways, is still evident today, albeit with mixed results.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The New York City Panorama, the Queen’s Museum<\/span><\/p>\n

There are several Robert Moses exhibits on display around New York right now–one at the Queen’s Museum opposite the Unisphere, which was the centerpiece of the World’s Fair. I had hoped to see the exhibit, but my family threesome left a little late from Manhattan, so in the remaining hour before closing time we settled on seeing the newly reopened New York City Panorama. This, like the Unisphere, is a remnant of the World’s Fair and Robert Moses’ vision of New York color-coded to highlight his achievments. In 1964, one rode above the meticulously detailed scale model of the city in a mock helicopter. Today, a ramp leads visitors around the model allowing one to linger and watch a recently updated multimedia presentation. The city depicted by the model is frozen in the early 1990s, and the Twin Towers reign over Lower Manhattan. I was captivated by the Panorama back in 1964, and it’s still an awesome sight today.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Brendan, my son, and the Unisphere My first trip to New York was in 1964, when I was 10 years old, to see the World’s Fair. I traveled from Virginia with my father in a tiny English Ford, and we camped in a state park on Long Island to save money, over an hour away […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}