1964 New York World's Fair

===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>