Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The New York State Fair, also known as the Great New York State Fair, is a 13-day showcase of agriculture, entertainment, education, and technology.With midway rides, concessionaires, exhibits, and concerts, it has become New York's largest annual event and an end-of-summer tradition for hundreds of thousands of families from all corners of the state.
09000942 [1] Added to NRHP. November 20, 2009. The New York State Pavilion is a pavilion at Flushing Meadows–Corona Park in Queens, New York City, United States. Constructed for the 1964 New York World's Fair, it was designed by the architects Philip Johnson and Richard Foster, with Lev Zetlin as the structural engineer.
Coordinates: 43°4′28″N 76°13′7″W. Toyota Coliseum entrance, March 2021. The Toyota Coliseum, formerly the State Fair Coliseum, is an indoor arena in Geddes, New York. It hosted the Syracuse Nationals from 1946 to 1951 as well as the Syracuse Stars of the American Hockey League. It also served as a temporary home to the Syracuse Orange ...
Empire Expo Center. Coordinates: 43.074°N 76.221°W. The Empire Expo Center (also known as the New York State Fairgrounds) is an exhibition ground located in Geddes, a suburb of Syracuse, New York. It features eight exhibition halls and 375 acres (1.52 km 2) of ground space, which are used year-round for exhibitions and trade fairs.
Trylon and Perisphere. The Trylon and Perisphere were two monumental modernistic structures designed by architects Wallace Harrison and J. Andre Fouilhoux that were together known as the Theme Center of the 1939 New York World's Fair. The Perisphere was a tremendous sphere, 180 feet (55 m) in diameter, connected to the 610-foot (190 m) spire ...
The 1964 New York World's Fair took place at Flushing Meadows–Corona Park in Queens, New York, United States, during 1964 and 1965. The fair included 139 pavilions with exhibits by 80 nations, 24 U.S. states, and 350 corporations. The exhibits were split across five regions—the Federal and State, International, Transportation, Amusement ...
Appearance. Transcontinental railroads in and near the United States by 1887. A transcontinental railroad or transcontinental railway is contiguous railroad trackage, [ 1 ] that crosses a continental land mass and has terminals at different oceans or continental borders. Such networks can be via the tracks of either a single railroad or over ...
In September 1935, the New York City Board of Estimate voted to allow Flushing Meadows–Corona Park, then an ash dump, to be used as the site of the 1939 New York World's Fair. [1] The New York World's Fair Corporation (WFC) was formed to oversee the exposition in October 1935, [2] and the WFC took over the site in 1936. [3]