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I attended the '64 Fair with my family as a young teenager. The image of the well-lit towers and colorful pavilion are still vivid in my memory today. To look at it today, even in its partially restored shape, bares no resemblance to the activity and eye-pleasing visual effect it offered at that time. So sad that it was neglected for so long.

Does it seem safe walking around the park area? Wasn't sure if many people are there checking it out.

I honestly hope it becomes New York’s Space needle!

Eugenics

Missing panoramas of the multitudes of strung out drug pushers / addicts now occupying Washington Square Park. This Arch was created to honor Pres George Washington and how he liberated, though violent revolution, the United States of America!

What BS that they destroyed these incredibly historic buildings. What was the emergency if no one can visit the island other than workers or people on tour? They should have fenced them off and left them for a future generation who cares enough to save what was left. Did they even save any artifacts or architectural items or just plow everything into a dump truck?

A shame they had to raze those buildings, would love to have seen them for their architecture. A main reason I would have gone....but still might go.

You would think they'd speak more about George Washington's inauguration, with that being why the momument was built in the first place? That one artsy fella seemed to be more estatic over some french chess player illegally taking possession the arch and declaring it an independant republic? How about George Washington taking possession of the land and declaring it a nation?

🎉I skated there back in the 70s. It was great lots of memories

This video does not jive with my understanding of what happened to the floor of the pavilion. Our elected officials are so bad at managing our resources that the elect to defer maintenance to the point of destruction. The fiberglass fabric that served as a roof for the structure aged and decayed to such an extent it began to fall to the floor below. Terrified of bad press and law suits the building was quickly closed to public access. At the time it was used for roller skating. Some blamed skating concessionaire for the damage. The skating concession took pains with the floor coating it with polyurethane to preserve it as they believed it was a darn nice floor to skate on and worth preservation. A contractor was hired to mitigate the problem with the fiberglass roof succumbing to the law of gravity. The contractor was instructed to assist the remainder of the roof to likewise succumb post haste at minimum cost. The remaining sections of the roof were cut free and allowed to free fall striking the terrazzo floor below. No provision was made to protect the floor before the demolition. Some time after, soil was spread over the floor to provide some protection. The university mentioned did some excellent restorative work on a few sections of floor. Completing repair to the entire floor would have been a monumental effort as so much damage occurred during roof demolition. Only the cables that supported the fabric remain. New York City is a master class in blame avoidance. The only people that care about these structures are citizens that have given of themselves freely to preserve them.

It would have been nice if you gave some credit to those of us who gave our time, for FREE, to rehab and repaint the Pavillion

I USE TO WORK THERE

Yah legal immigrants not border jumpers child trafficking drugs TB - like now

I call this the Machu Picchu of queens

i was there when they allowed us to go inside and it was amazing

Don’t you just love how these people spend others money!

woild love to ge nside someday as a life long ny er as mjuch as anhone can see on their own their is so mch in this city that most people will never see and maybe never even hear read about.

Anybody know what those abandoned buildings were built for? An old psych center or sanitarium?

Wasn’t this property stolen from the Willis family?

NY happens to be an f’n disgrace. Can’t even preserve & protect a couple very meaningful buildings. Those beautiful times deserve better.

Wish crime went would drop. Last time I went a cop walked over with me be as someone was popped the night before!!!!!

10-15-22. I came to Fort Totten to video record Company K of the 67th NY Infantry reenact their annual Civil War encampment. I knew of the Battery but hadn't seen it , so with camcorder in hand it became my afternoon adventure. I wanted to learn more about it and searching RUclips I was led to this video. I found it entertaining as well as informative. Well done. As a RUclipsr I know the value of likes, so I added mine.

I snuck in there and it’s really nice when you see it inside

The video is appreciated. Very well done. Thank you for highlighting a hidden gem in our town.

It needs to be restored. It’s history & holds the story of early immigration. Perhaps we can learn from this and apply it to todays immigration problems. Maybe, maybe not. Our roots are there. Mine are. My native city New York. 🇺🇸🍎

This place should have never been close because the place is a historical part of the beginning and the growth of the US! I just can't believe how the government watches such a place like this deteriorate. Just think most non-melanated people came to America 🇺🇸 🤔 through this place. 😔😌😔

This is a really well done video. Thank you for highlighting such an important place in our countries history and the stories that continue to be told through this monumental building.

Opening it up to the public would be a devastating thing to do. Not only would there be vandalizing of the tombstones, but it would be a place where teens and other would go to either commit suicide or murder.

Hart Island the correct site. V19 people.

My unforgettable "summer of "69 " saw LED ZEPPLIN; MUDDY WATERS; STEPPENWOLF for like $3 a show there...

I stayed the night on Hart Island and made a video of the night it’s super creepy it’s on my RUclips channel Southern Pirate Outdoors🏴‍☠️🏴

let relatives in for free once a month.... need proof they have relatives there . Public access should be open fortnightly? ... but... Charge them a fee for the ferry also up keep of the island.. Close ferry at 4pm to visitors ..

My old playground. LIterally. My family lived there from 1968-1981. Today I run the Fort Totten website and Facebook page.

Any information on Fort Totten (other then basic info) about it during WW2? My Grandfather was there before going overseas

Talk about a no-brainer fix that Park up it means so much to people I don't understand why they have not done so yet.

So few understand the history of the island. I'd like to say I do, but not so much, since I don't know the buildings like this. Nor, when I lived in the UES, did I ever take the trouble to visit. Since landmarking is something I care about, I do wish I had.

Beautifully shot and edited. A haunting and evocative video.

Thank you for the video!! So everything is open to the public to walk around?

Lel i wanna go

My boy went down the steps next to the towers back in 1980, and he told it was damn sketchy. When I was a kid I didn't even dare to attempt that myself.

Just as we work to preserve this iconic landmark we must remain mindful of the urgent need to avoid gentrification of Corona, Flushing, Jacksonheights and Woodside. This is a vibrant culturally diverse community please be sure whatever renovations are made that the POC community isn’t displaced.

I was not yet born when my family went to the fair (my mother had gone to the '39 too), and every time we passed the pavilion on the Grand Central, a comment would be made. It led me having a fascination with the building. Next to the Space-Needle, it's the most iconic "mid-century" structure in existence. It and the Unisphere are the symbol of Queens like the parachute jump (another '39 world's fair structure) is to Brooklyn. I remember going with my brother into the park about 1980. It was sketchy, no doubt, but the pavilion was open and completely original. The first tower still had it's clear panels enclosing it. We took a bunch of photos with my brothers zoom camera that I still occasionally look back on.

May, they all rest in peace 😇😇😇😇😇✝️✝️✝️✝️✝️😭😭😭😭😭👏👏👏👏👏.

Lots of good information!

The Structure was featured in 1978 Film THE WIZ movie with Diana Ross and Michael Jackson. It was used as Graffiti City Munchkin Land in the Land Of OZ. I LOVED seeing it in THE WIZ !

Ppl in ny do not call it heart island known fact

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Perhaps saving it from vandalism