1964 New York World's Fair

==Reuse of site and structures==

===On-site structures===
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[[File:Unisphere-20100731.jpg|thumb|The [[Unisphere]] (2010)]]
New York City was left with a much-improved Flushing Meadows–Corona Park following the fair, with the government taking possession of the park from the Fair Corporation in June 1967.<ref name="NYTimes-FMCP-Jun1967">{{cite news|last1=Schumach|first1=Murray|title=MOSES GIVES CITY FAIR SITE AS PARK; Flushing Meadows in Queens Becomes the 2d Biggest Recreation Area Here|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9F03E5D6123AE63ABC4C53DFB066838C679EDE&legacy=true|access-date=March 28, 2017|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=June 4, 1967|archive-date=November 22, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171122062009/http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9F03E5D6123AE63ABC4C53DFB066838C679EDE&legacy=true|url-status=live}}</ref> In the 21st century, the paths and their names remain almost unchanged from the days of the fair.<ref>{{cite web|title=Flushing Meadows-Corona Park: Historic Preservation Studio|url=https://issuu.com/barrettreiter/docs/fmcp_hpstudioii2015_printedition_re|publisher=[[Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation]]|access-date=March 31, 2017|date=May 3, 2015|archive-date=April 1, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170401145529/https://issuu.com/barrettreiter/docs/fmcp_hpstudioii2015_printedition_re|url-status=live|page=71}}</ref>

The Unisphere stands at the center of the park as a symbol of "Man's Achievements on a Shrinking Globe in an Expanding Universe". The Unisphere has become the iconic sculptural feature of the park, as well as a symbol of the borough of [[Queens]] in general. It stands on the site formerly occupied by the [[Perisphere]] during the earlier 1939–1940 Fair.<ref>{{cite web |title=Unisphere |url=http://www.nyc.gov/html/lpc/downloads/pdf/reports/unisphere.pdf |publisher=[[New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission]] |access-date=March 28, 2017 |date=May 16, 1995 |pages=1–3 |archive-date=March 1, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170301085029/http://www.nyc.gov/html/lpc/downloads/pdf/reports/unisphere.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="Framework Appendix"/>{{rp|53}}

An ancient Roman column from [[Jordan]] still stands near the Unisphere.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.boweryboyshistory.com/2014/06/the-religious-controversy-behind-lonely.html |title=The religious controversy behind a lonely Roman column just standing around by itself in Flushing Meadows Park |last=Boys |first=Bowery |date=June 26, 2014 |website=The Bowery Boys: New York City History |language=en|access-date=October 26, 2019}}</ref>  A stone bench marking the site of the [[Vatican City|Vatican]] pavilion also stands east of the main fountain.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/flushing-meadows-corona-park/monuments/1623 |title=Flushing Meadows Corona Park Monuments - Vatican Shrine : NYC Parks |website=www.nycgovparks.org|access-date=October 26, 2019}}</ref>

The [[New York Hall of Science]], founded during the 1964 World's Fair, was one of the country's first dedicated science museums;{{citation needed|date=February 2020}}{{dubious|date=August 2022}} it still operates in an expanded facility in its original location at the park's northern corner.<ref name="remi">{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1966/09/22/archives/hopeful-future-museum-but-citys-hall-of-science-still-retains-aura.html |title=Hopeful Future Museum; But City's Hall of Science Still Retains Aura Reminiscent of the World's Fair |date=September 22, 1966 |access-date=April 6, 2008 |author=Walter Sullivan |work=The New York Times|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> The Hall of Science anchors a Space Park exhibiting the rockets and vehicles used in America's early space exploration projects. The Space Park gradually deteriorated due to neglect, but in 2004 the surviving rockets were restored and placed back on display.<ref name="Framework Appendix">{{cite book |title=Flushing Meadows Corona Park Strategic Framework Plan |author=Quennell Rothschild & Partners |author2=Smith-Miller + Hawkinson Architects |chapter=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 |pages=49–72}}</ref>{{rp|53}}

The carousel that was the centerpiece of Carousel Park in the Lake Amusement Area was relocated to the former Transportation Area outside of the Queens Zoo in the northwestern part of the park. It still operates as the [[Flushing Meadows Carousel]], and is now listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.thirteen.org/metrofocus/2012/03/you-spin-me-right-round-baby-right-round-like-a-carousel/ |title=You Spin Me Right Round, Baby, Right Round Like a Carousel&nbsp;... |date=March 7, 2012 |work=[[WNET]] |access-date=April 3, 2017}}</ref>

[[File:WorldFairTower1.jpg|thumb|upright|Ruins of the New York State Pavilion observatory towers in 2006]]
The [[New York State Pavilion]], constructed as the state's exhibit hall for the World's Fair, is also a prominent visible structure in the park. However, no new use for the building was found after the Fair, and the building sat derelict and decaying for decades. A suggestion to reinstall the mosaic floor at the World Trade Center did not materialize.{{citation needed|date=August 2022}}

In 1993,<ref name="NYDN Queens Theatre"/> the [[Queens Theatre in the Park]] took over the Circarama adjacent to the towers and continues to operate there, using the ruined state pavilion as a storage depot.<ref name="NYDN Queens Theatre">{{Cite news |url=https://www.nydailynews.com/archives/boroughs/swing-latin-america-fest-article-1.774979 |title=Swing Thru Latin America Via Fest |last=Ruiz |first=Albor |date=July 21, 1997 |work=NY Daily News|access-date=April 5, 2017 |language=en}}</ref><ref>"[http://nymag.com/listings/attraction/flushing_meadows_corona_park/ Flushing Meadows Corona Park] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210508111245/https://nymag.com/listings/attraction/flushing_meadows_corona_park/ |date=May 8, 2021 }}" New York Magazine, December 11, 2015</ref>  The ruins were featured in the 1997 movie ''[[Men in Black (1997 film)|Men in Black]]''.<ref name="Curbed-MIB-WF">{{cite web |last=Rosenberg |first=Zoe |title=New York State Pavilion preservation effort gets funding infusion |website=Curbed NY |date=April 28, 2017 |url=https://ny.curbed.com/2017/4/28/15468644/new-york-state-pavilion-preservation-nyc | access-date=November 2, 2017}}</ref> Some conservation and restoration techniques were demonstrated in 2008 by researchers from the [[University of Pennsylvania]].{{citation needed|date=February 2020}} The New York State Pavilion was listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] in 2009.<ref name="nps">{{cite web |url=http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/listings/20100625.htm |title=National Register of Historic Places |date=June 25, 2010 |publisher=National Park Service}}</ref>

In fall 2013, NYC Parks announced plans to restore the pavilion for $73&nbsp;million,<ref name=cbs-nys-pav/> and in 2015, the entire structure was repainted yellow.<ref name="Colangelo">{{cite news |url=http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/queens/ny-state-pavilion-3-million-facelift-free-article-1.2210973 |title=Iconic New York State Pavilion in Flushing Meadows Corona Park getting $3 million facelift – FOR FREE |date=May 5, 2015 |work=New York Daily News |publisher=NYDailyNews.com |last1=Colangelo |first1=Lisa L. |access-date=July 27, 2015}}</ref><ref name="Curbed-MIB-WF" />

A pre-existing structure from the 1939 fair served as the temporary headquarters of the [[United Nations General Assembly]], and then became the New York City Pavilion in the 1964 fair. Afterwards, it was subdivided into the Queens Center for Art (now [[Queens Museum]]) and an ice-skating rink.<ref name="nyt 201311">{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/08/arts/design/the-expanded-queens-museum-reopens.html?_r=0 |title=A Local Place for a Global Neighborhood |last=Cotter, Holland |date=November 7, 2013 |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=May 2, 2015}}</ref> The Museum continues to display the scale model ''[[Panorama of the City of New York]]'', which is updated occasionally.<ref name="Leuthner"/>  The Museum also has a large display of memorabilia from the two world's fairs, as well as an original 3D scale model of the entire 1964 World's Fair site. In April 2011, the Queens Museum started an expansion project that almost doubled its floor space, bringing the total to about {{convert|100,000|sqft|m2}}.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Queens Museum – New York City Building |url=http://www.queensmuseum.org/about/aboutbuilding-history |publisher=Queens Museum |access-date=February 1, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120115115029/http://www.queensmuseum.org/about/aboutbuilding-history |archive-date=January 15, 2012}}</ref> The space formerly occupied by the ice skating rink was incorporated into the museum's expansion, completed in 2013.<ref name="nyt 201311"/>

The Pavilion (World's Fair Building / Winston Churchill Tribute)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.westland.net/ny64fair/map-docs/churchill.htm |title=World's Fair Building / Churchill Tribute |work=westland.net |publisher=Jeffrey Stanton |access-date=May 21, 2012}}</ref> was dismantled after the fair, and reassembled by 1968 on the fairgrounds site as the [[aviary]] for the Flushing Meadows Zoo (now the [[Queens Zoo]]). The building was a {{convert|175|ft|adj=on}} diameter [[geodesic dome]] attributed to either [[Buckminster Fuller]] or Thomas C. Howard, and produced by [[Synergetics (Fuller)|Synergetics]] of [[Raleigh, North Carolina]].<ref name="Dunlap">{{cite news|last1=Dunlap |first1=David W. |title=50 Years Later, Questions Over Who Designed a World's Fair Dome:City Room |url=https://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/05/07/50-years-later-questions-over-who-designed-a-worlds-fair-dome/ |access-date=February 10, 2020 |newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|issn=0362-4331 |date=May 7, 2014}}</ref> It remains as the aviary of the Queens Zoo, which was closed in 1988 and then reopened in 1992 after a $16&nbsp;million renovation project.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/01/03/realestate/streetscapes-the-queens-aviary-a-great-outside-interior-space.html |title=Streetscapes: The Queens Aviary; A Great Outside Interior Space |first=Christopher |last=Gray |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=January 3, 1993 |access-date=August 23, 2013}}</ref>

Other buildings remained for a while after the 1964 Fair's conclusion in hopes that a new use for them could be found, but were subsequently demolished. This included the Travel and Transportation Pavilion, destroyed in 1967 after a failed conversion to a [[fire station]], and the Federal Pavilion, demolished in 1977 after extensive deterioration.<ref name="Cotter Young">{{cite book |first1=Bill |last1=Cotter |first2=Bill |last2=Young |title=The 1964–1965 New York World's Fair |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y-7zAgAAQBAJ |access-date=April 26, 2017 |date=January 20, 2014 |publisher=[[Arcadia Publishing]] |isbn=978-1-4396-4214-6}}</ref>{{rp|55, 67}}<ref>{{cite web |title=Flushing Meadows-Corona Park: Historic Preservation Studio |url=https://issuu.com/barrettreiter/docs/fmcp_hpstudioii2015_printedition_re |publisher=[[Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation]] |access-date=March 31, 2017 |date=May 3, 2015 |page=18}}</ref>

===Pavilions and major exhibits elsewhere===
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[[File:New York Worlds Fairgrounds.jpg|thumb|Aerial view of some remaining structures in Flushing Meadows in 2004, including the ruins of the New York State Pavilion in the foreground]]
[[File:Stone Mountain Carillon.jpg|thumb|The [[carillon]] was moved to [[Stone Mountain]] in Georgia]]
[[File:Rocky Point State Park1.JPG|thumb|One of the [[General Mills]] arches was moved to [[Rocky Point State Park]] in Rhode Island]]

Like its 1939 predecessor, the 1964 World's Fair lost money. It was unable to repay its financial backers their investment, and it became embroiled in legal disputes with its creditors until 1970, when the books were finally closed and the Fair Corporation was dissolved. Most of the pavilions constructed for the fair were demolished within six months following the fair's close. While only a handful of pavilions and exhibits survived, some of them traveled great distances and found new homes following the fair:

* The Austria pavilion became a [[ski lodge]] at Cockaigne Ski Resort in western New York. On January 25, 2011, the building was destroyed by fire.<ref>{{cite news |last=Emke |first=Dave |title=Trying To Regroup: Ski Center Owners Look To Future After Fire Destroys Lodge |newspaper=[[The Post-Journal]] |date=January 26, 2011 |url=http://www.post-journal.com/page/content.detail/id/578606/Trying-To-Regroup.html |access-date=February 16, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222171537/http://www.post-journal.com/page/content.detail/id/578606/Trying-To-Regroup.html |archive-date=February 22, 2014}}</ref>
* The Wisconsin pavilion's front teepee-like portion became a radio station in [[Neillsville, Wisconsin]]. The pavilion's large rear structure that formed a squat-looking "H" (if seen from above) is the combined kitchen, dining hall, and recreation hall of [[Camp Ramah in the Poconos|Camp Ramah]] in upstate Lakewood, Pennsylvania.{{Citation needed|date=June 2019}}
* The [[United States Rubber Company|US Royal]] tire-shaped [[Ferris wheel]] was relocated to become a [[Uniroyal Giant Tire|landmark]] along [[Interstate 94]] in the [[Metro Detroit]] [[Downriver]] community of [[Allen Park, Michigan]].<ref name="Patton">{{cite news |last=Patton |first=Phil |title=When Cars Ruled the World's Fair |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/13/automobiles/collectibles/when-cars-ruled-the-worlds-fair.html |access-date=April 12, 2014 |newspaper=The New York Times|issn=0362-4331 |date=April 11, 2014}}</ref>
* The Pavilion of Spain relocated to [[St. Louis, Missouri]], and is now a part of a [[Hilton Hotel]].<ref name="ONeil">{{cite news |last=O'Neil |first=Tim |title=A Look Back • Spanish Pavilion, toast of New York, flops in St. Louis but endures as hotel lobby |url=http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/a-look-back-spanish-pavilion-toast-of-new-york-flops/article_0b42227a-9363-56db-9937-29776df674c8.html |access-date=July 12, 2017 |newspaper=St. Louis Post-Dispatch |date=June 17, 2012}}</ref>
* The [[Parker Pen]] pavilion became offices for the Lodge of Four Seasons in [[Lake of the Ozarks]], Missouri.{{Citation needed|date=June 2019}}
* The [[Golden Rondelle Theater]] was reworked by Taliesin Associated Architects,<ref name="SCJ" /> and moved to the [[S. C. Johnson & Son|S. C. Johnson]] [[Johnson Wax Headquarters|administration complex]] in [[Racine, Wisconsin]],<ref name="Cotter Young"/>{{rp|90}} which was designed by [[Frank Lloyd Wright]].<ref name="SCJ"/>
* The chapel and stained glass windows from the [[Vatican City|Vatican]] pavilion were built into a Roman Catholic church called Saint Mary Mother of the Redeemer in [[Groton, Connecticut]].<ref name="mom">{{cite web |title=Our History |url=http://www.stmarysgroton.org/?page_id=231 |website=Saint Mary Mother of the Redeemer | date=December 7, 2014 |access-date=July 1, 2015}}</ref>
* The [[Christian Science]] pavilion became a church in [[Poway, California]]. The structure was demolished in 2006.{{Citation needed|date=June 2019}}
* The [[Mormon]] pavilion became a church in [[Plainview, New York]], dedicated December 2, 1967, and is still in use.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Mormon Pavilion at the 1964–65 New York World's Fair {{!}} Religious Studies Center |url=https://rsc.byu.edu/eye-faith/mormon-pavilion-1964-65-new-york-worlds-fair#_edn18 |access-date=2022-05-28 |website=rsc.byu.edu}}</ref>
* A large oil painting of a woman, painted in 1964 by [[Roy Lichtenstein]] and titled ''New York World's Fair'', is in the [[Weisman Art Museum]] in [[Minneapolis]], Minnesota.<ref name="Felthousen-Post"/>
* The [[carillon]] from the [[Coca-Cola]] Pavilion was moved to [[Stone Mountain Park]], near [[Atlanta, Georgia]]. The musical instrument was expanded from 610 to 732 bells in total.<ref name="Felthousen-Post"/>
* ''[[Mathematica: A World of Numbers... and Beyond]]'', an interactive exhibit from the [[IBM]] Pavilion, was relocated to the [[Pacific Science Center]] in [[Seattle]], but is no longer there. An identical copy of the exhibit was obtained by the [[New York Hall of Science]] around 2000, and now remains on display not far from the site of the original 1964 installation.<ref name=Nysci>{{cite web |title=Mathematica |url=http://nysci.org/mathematica/ |publisher=New York Hall of Science |access-date=March 6, 2016 |archive-date=March 6, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306220038/http://nysci.org/mathematica/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* For many years the fair's [[amateur radio]] station console was used by the [[American Radio Relay League]]. Later sold, in 2006 it was purchased by a [[Collins Radio]] collector in Texas.<ref>''QST'', September 2009, pp. 92–3, "Vintage Radio: Displaying Your Collection"</ref>
* The illuminated "G" from the large fiberglass [[square and compasses]] that stood in front of the [[Masonic]] Brotherhood Center was moved to the New York Masonic Home campus in [[Utica, New York]], and installed into a smaller sculpture. The [[Grand Lodge of New York]] installed a bronze sculpture by artist [[Donald De Lue]], of [[George Washington]] in Masonic regalia at the fairgrounds after it closed. It still stands near the soccer fields. (De Lue also sculpted the Fair's iconic ''[[Rocket Thrower]]'' sculpture.){{Citation needed|date=June 2019}}
* Sinclair Oil "Dinoland" spent a period of time as a traveling exhibit. The [[Stegosaurus]] model was eventually donated to [[Dinosaur National Monument]]. The Stegosaurus and some of the others still remain in displays at various locations.<ref name="Dinoland1"/><ref name="Felthousen-Post"/>
* The [[The Walt Disney Company|Disney]]-created attraction ''[[It's a Small World]]'' was transferred to Disneyland, along with the "[[Carousel of Progress]]" and the first Abraham Lincoln audio-animatronic figure for the original ''Great Moments With Mr. Lincoln'' show. Scenery and the audio-animatronics dinosaurs from the Ford Magic Skyway show were installed in the Disneyland Railroad's Primeval World Diorama, and the attraction's actual WEDway ride system was improved upon and re-used for Tomorrowland's PeopleMover.{{Citation needed|date=June 2019}}
* Some of the light fixtures that lined the walkways can be found still functioning at [[Penn Hills Resort]] in the [[Pocono Mountains]], Analomink, Pennsylvania, and the [[Orange County Fair (New York)|Orange County Fair]]grounds in [[Middletown, Orange County, New York|Middletown, New York]]. Until 2011, [[Canobie Lake Park]] in [[Salem, New Hampshire]], also had the Illuminators, but they have since been replaced. Canobie Lake Park also has been reusing street mailbox-shaped trash cans from the World's Fair.{{Citation needed|date=June 2019}}
* The Skyway cable car tower structures and gondolas were moved to ''[[Six Flags Great Adventure]]'' (at that time called ''Great Adventure'') in [[New Jersey]] for use from 1974 to the present.<ref>[http://www.greatadventurehistory.com/Skyride.htm "1964 World's Fair Sky Ride at Great Adventure"].</ref>
* The New England Pavilion was disassembled and moved to [[South Portland, Maine]], where most of it was reassembled and used as a small shopping mall at 50 Maine Mall Road.<ref name="Collins">{{cite news |last1=Collins |first1=Kate Irish |title=South Portland's Maine Mall area to get another hotel |url=http://www.theforecaster.net/south-portlands-maine-mall-area-to-get-another-hotel/ |access-date=May 6, 2017 |work=The Forecaster |date=August 12, 2016}}</ref> In August 2016, these buildings were torn down to make way for new businesses.<ref name="Collins" />
* The ''Triumph of Man'' exhibit from the Traveler's Insurance Pavilion<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.westland.net/ny64fair/map-docs/travellersinsurance.htm |title=Traveler's Insurance Pavilion |work=westland.net |publisher=Jeffrey Stanton |access-date=May 21, 2012}}</ref> was on display at the original location of the [[COSI Columbus|Center of Science and Industry (COSI)]] in [[Columbus, Ohio]], from 1966 to 1999 when the museum moved. It had been revamped as the ''Time Tunnel'' in 1983.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mindspring.com/~tluthman/triumphofman/triumphofman.swf |title=Virtual TRIUMPH OF MAN |work=mindspring.com |publisher=Tom Luthman |access-date=May 21, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140306155234/http://www.mindspring.com/~tluthman/triumphofman/triumphofman.swf |archive-date=March 6, 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://oldcosi.com/triumph.htm |title=The Triumph of Man |work=oldcosi.com |access-date=May 21, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://oldcosi.com/timetunnel.htm |title=Time Tunnel |work=oldcosi.com |access-date=May 21, 2012}}</ref>
* The Belgian Village carousel after the 1964 World's Fair went to [[Montreal]], Quebec, Canada, where it was part of [[Expo '67]] in the Carrefour International at the [[La Ronde (amusement park)|La Ronde]] amusement area. After that fair closed, the ride was moved into the Kiddieland area of the now-permanent La Ronde Amusement Park. The 1885 "Le Galopant" carousel was restored in 2008, but has been out of service since 2019. It still can be found at LaRonde today (albeit for display purposes only), which is now owned by [[Six Flags]]. 
* The [[R33 World's Fair (New York City Subway car)|R33]] and [[R36 World's Fair (New York City Subway car)|R36]] cars built for the [[New York City Subway]]'s [[IRT Flushing Line]] ({{NYCS trains|Flushing}}) ran in [[revenue service]] through 2003. Some of the rolling stock still survives today in maintenance work use or in storage. Five of these cars (9306, 9307, 9310, 9586, 9587) are in the collection of the [[New York Transit Museum]], with 9306 regularly on display there. The rest of the fleet has been sunk to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean as part of the "[[Redbird Reef]]" off the coast of the Northeast United States, to serve as an [[artificial reef|artificial barrier reef]] habitat for marine life.<ref name=nytreef>{{cite web |title=Growing Pains for a Deep-Sea Home Built of Subway Cars |website=The New York Times|issn=0362-4331 |date=April 8, 2008 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/08/us/08reef.html | access-date=April 15, 2020 |last=Urbina |first=Ian}}</ref>
* One of the 11 steel arches commissioned by [[General Mills]] for the fair was later moved to the [[Rocky Point Amusement Park]] in [[Warwick, Rhode Island]], although it is unclear when, why or how it came to be placed in the park.<ref name="projoarch">{{cite web |last1=Kozma |first1=Carol |title=Warwick's Rocky Point arch gets a facelift thanks to Rhode Island Foundation + video |url=https://www.providencejournal.com/news/20160526/warwicks-rocky-point-arch-gets-facelift-thanks-to-rhode-island-foundation--video |website=Providence Journal |access-date=March 4, 2019 |language=en}}</ref> The arch remained in Rocky Point after the amusement park was closed and abandoned in 1995. It was repainted and restored in 2016, and acts as an entrance landmark for the current [[Rocky Point State Park]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Repainted, the symbolic Rocky Point "arch" is unveiled |url=http://www.630wpro.com/2016/09/26/repainted-the-symbolic-rocky-point-arch-is-unveiled/ |website=WPRO |access-date=March 4, 2019 |date=September 26, 2016}}</ref>
* The [[Queens Museum]] has approximately 900 items on permanent display from both the 1964/1965 and 1939/1940 World's Fairs.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.queensmuseum.org/exhibitions/2013/11/15/worlds-fair-visible-storage/ |title=World's Fair Visible Storage On Long-Term View |author=Queens Museum |website=queensmuseum.org |access-date=August 25, 2016 |archive-date=February 8, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150208103047/http://www.queensmuseum.org/exhibitions/2013/11/15/worlds-fair-visible-storage/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>