In the Corona, neighborhood just south of LaGuardia Airport and the East River offshoot called Flushing Bay, a wide corridor of greenery centered on Flushing Meadows, the area where two World’s Fairs – in 1939 and 1964 – were held is an 898-acre park whose iconic symbol is a nearly 140-foot-high (43-meter) steel globe called the Unisphere. It´s also home to several of the borough’s top cultural attractions. Topping the list is the Queens Museum with has all manner of interesting exhibits on local history, art, and culture dating back to colonial times, rotating exhibitions; and particularly noteworthy permanent collections of Tiffany glass and lots of items relating to the ’64 World’s Fair (including the Panorama of the City of New York, a nearly 900,000-building model).
Read more in my post An Under-the-Radar New York City Gem: the Borough of Queens.
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