1964 New York World's Fair

==Site history==
The selected site, [[Flushing Meadows–Corona Park]] in the [[Borough (New York City)|borough]] of [[Queens]], was originally a natural wetland straddling the [[Flushing River]].<ref name="Appendix: History">{{cite web |title=Appendix: The History of Flushing Meadows Corona Park |url=https://www.nycgovparks.org/sub_your_park/vt_flushing_meadows/presentation/07appendix.pdf |publisher=[[New York City Department of Parks and Recreation]] |access-date=November 12, 2017 |page=52}}</ref> [[Flushing, Queens|Flushing]] had been a Dutch settlement, named after the city of [[Vlissingen]] (anglicized into "Flushing").<ref name="Steinberg 2015"/>{{rp|220}} The site was then converted into the Corona Ash Dumps,<ref name="Steinberg 2015">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=arkrCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA211 |title=Gotham Unbound: The Ecological History of Greater New York |last=Steinberg |first=Ted |date=July 21, 2015 |publisher=[[Simon and Schuster]] |isbn=978-1-4767-4128-4 |pages=209–225}}</ref>{{rp|212}} which were featured prominently in [[F. Scott Fitzgerald]]'s ''[[The Great Gatsby]]'' as the "Valley of Ashes".<ref name="Appendix: History"/> The site was used for the [[1939 New York World's Fair|1939–1940 New York World's Fair]], and at the conclusion of the fair, was used as a park.<ref>{{cite news |title=Ready to Turn Fair Into Park; Moses Tells Mayor His Plans Are Set |url=http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252018%2FNew%2520York%2520NY%2520Sun%2FNew%2520York%2520NY%2520Sun%25201940%2FNew%2520York%2520NY%2520Sun%25201940%2520a%2520-%25204231.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190729132724/http://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%2018/New%20York%20NY%20Sun/New%20York%20NY%20Sun%201940/New%20York%20NY%20Sun%201940%20a%20-%204231.pdf |archive-date=2019-07-29 |url-status=live |access-date=March 27, 2017 |work=[[The Sun (New York)]] |via=[[Old Fulton New York Postcards]] |date=August 15, 1940 |page=14}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Flushing Meadow |url=http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%2FLong%2520Island%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201949%2FLong%2520Island%2520%2520City%2520NY%2520Star%2520Journal%25201949%2520-%25204917.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190729132730/http://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%2014/Long%20Island%20City%20NY%20Star%20Journal/Long%20Island%20City%20NY%20Star%20Journal%201949/Long%20Island%20%20City%20NY%20Star%20Journal%201949%20-%204917.pdf |archive-date=2019-07-29 |url-status=live |access-date=March 27, 2017 |work=Long Island Star-Journal |via=[[Old Fulton New York Postcards]] |date=July 13, 1949 |page=4}}</ref>

Preceding these fairs was the 1853–1854 [[Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations]], located in the [[New York Crystal Palace]] at what is now [[Bryant Park]] in the New York City borough of [[Manhattan]].<ref name="NYHCGuide">{{cite web |title=Guide to the New York Crystal Palace Records |url=http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/nyhs/nyccrystalpalace.html |publisher=The New York Historical Society |access-date=July 15, 2011}}</ref>