5120 x 3401 px | 43,3 x 28,8 cm | 17,1 x 11,3 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
17 settembre 2017
Altre informazioni:
Flushing Meadow - Corona Park. This park of 5 square kilometers , was built on a former garbage dump. The Flushing Meadows -Corona Park , often called Flushing Meadow Park or Flushing Meadows Park, which is located north of Queens, New York City , United States , at the intersection of the Long Island Expressway and the Grand Central Parkway. It is the second largest public park in the city of New York (after Pelham Bay Park in the Bronx ) , was created to host the World 's Fair, New York 1939/1940 and in it the World's Fair New York 1964 took place . The park is maintained and operated by the Department of Parks and Recreation of the City of New York. The park is located at the eastern edge of the area encompassed by the Fourth of Queens Community Board . The park has an area of 5 km ², and was created on a former landfill as " a valley of ashes " in the work of F. Scott Fitzgerald , The Great Gatsby. The place , known at that time as the Corona Ash Landfill ( Corona Ash Dumps ) , was cleared by Parks Commissioner Robert Moses in preparation for the 1939-1940 World's Fair . Moses was found with the dilemma of throwing away the mountains of ash , so strategically incorporated a lot of waste on the basis of the Van Wyck Expressway , which runs east side of the park , the nearby Interboro Parkway (now Jackie Robinson Parkway) , and the Long Island Expressway that divides the park into two areas north and south . The Grand Central Parkway separates a main part of this northern part , while the Jewel Avenue to run from east to west , cuts the south. Some of the buildings of the 1939 Fair were used as the first temporary offices of the United Nations from 1946 until they moved in 1951 its permanent offices in Manhattan. The former New York State Building was used by the United Nations General Assembly during that period. This building was later remodeled for the 1964 Fair as the Pavilion of the City of New York (New York City Pavillion ) , featuring the Panorama of the
