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Sunday, November 12, 2006

Futuristic Icon of '64 World's Fair Rusting Away (NY Times)

From the New York Times:

By DAN BARRY
Published: November 11, 2006
Once there were elevators gliding up the sides of the towers to reveal a city unfolding; now they are rusted in mid-rise. Once there were stairwells winding within those towers; now they are rotted through. The call for a better tomorrow, for “Peace Through Understanding,” is answered by the flutter and coo of its hidden inhabitants.

The city’s neglect of this gift bequeathed to it in 1967 has long been a prominent embarrassment, the elephant in the room that is the borough of Queens.

But the more years that go by, the more the structure becomes New York’s own “colossal wreck,”.....

For the full article, see: http://select.nytimes.com/2006/11/11/nyregion/11about.html

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