Groundbreaking Held For Restoration Of Historic World's Fair Towers, Pavilion 

Are you people serious? You credit MITCH SILVERSTEIN for repainting it? Are you kidding me. That was myself and members of Local Union 806, who VOLUNTEERED our FREE TIME to refresh and repaint that thing. It's really shitty hope the people who do the actual work in this world never get the credit.

I was at this fair in 1964 at the age of 9 with my mom and sisters. It was amazing. Still remember every minute there. Mom bought me the toy of the US Royal Tire, which ran on batteries. Don't know what happened to it.

We want it back!

So why doent they work anymore??

and they did nothing

Hopefully money can go where it's supposed to go. The city should offer advertising in the sky,to fund restoration to something grand.

I saw a big cockroach climb it then two men in suits shot one of those things down…

Hope that doesn't add congestion in Corona its enough with the mets and the us open

Yeah, yeah, yeah. $24M just to make it look it good. And in 10 years it will look like crap. How about a real restoration New York State? You have gobs and gobs of tax money.

The observation Towers should be fixed up real nice organize it the main floor the first .Tower should be antique store the second tower could be a huge humongous kitchen and the third .Tower to be a huge beautifully restaurant and the elevators should be very fixed up and organize it real nice if you built this thing organizing people will come to the. Restaurant and spend that luxury money on the restaurant the observation tower is back in the 64s and 65s . Then you could probably you make a huge humongous parking lot for the observation towers for the. Restaurant with nice you have tremendous and now standing view from the city going to the restaurant above the first Tower you can see the city of Manhattan the the park or Flushing Meadow Park is so beautiful if you built this place like a restaurant the first Tower and antique store the second tower a huge kitchen and a third .Tower a restaurant you'll be amazed if you build it real nice.

I think that it would be nice to see a beautiful building like that restored to what it used to be

As a New Yorker who went to the fair 16 times as child, I'm very happy about the restoration of this beautiful attraction. I hope they keep it close to its original design.

Howard Stark will be proud! Lol

This restoration will probably cost about $50 billion in cost overruns. Would be cheaper to demolish them and rebuild them from scratch, adding modern features. But, hey! Who am I anyway.

I think it should be re purposed, it’s part of New York’s history, how kool would it be to re light, re install the sky cars, open a Restaurant up top, I think it would drawer millions of people

They are finally working on the towers again! 😀

I remember going up there in 1965. BTW some of the film clips are from the NY Worlds Fair sponsored 1965 Technicolor promo film TO THE FAIR, still a great movie 55 years old!

I grew up two miles from the 1964/65 World’s Fair and it was a HUGE part of my childhood. I was happy that the NYS Pavilion towers and tent were saved, and sad every time driving by the on the LIE to see them rotting away. The mosaic floor with the road map of New York State that had a red star for every Texaco gas station in the state was destroyed by years of rain freezing and thawing and all the multicolored canopy fiberglass tiles collapsed to the floor. I am very happy to see the city is putting in money to stabilize the structure and hope that someday a full restoration is done to reinvigorate this iconic symbol of the Borough of Queens in NYC.

Today, three years later it still in ruins and getting worse. So sad.

I would love to see these totally restored back tot what it was including the obersvation and restaurant/snack bars upstairs. (perhaps one of them could be enclosed for year round seating??? I'd love to also see the pavilion brought back with the map of the world and adding rides, roller coasters etc to the whole area. I'd like to see the monorail brought back too.

FINALLY!

I live so near by

How is this restoration work going? I am from Philadelphia but a huge fan of the NY Worlds Fair and of the NY State Pavilion. I have visited it twice and look forward to coming again. Did the pandemic affect this effort?

I hope they build a Disney park in New york.

they gonna strap a gay flag all over it... no offense

I wish they kept the Chicago and St Louis, Paris and Portland worlds fairs, since they didn't build them anyway.

I think they've lost money on that fair since day one and it's still costing you money 😂. "Corona" Park and the 1964 Worlds Fair... Interesting

All alone at the ‘64 World Fair Eighty girls yelling “Small girl after all”.

Weren't these flying saucers though? Heard that in an educational film called the "men in black"

Have usta and the shea brothers match funds!!!!!

Thanks to a new Defunctland episode about the 1964 New York World’s Fair.

I was wondering why it looks so different

I only knew about these because of GTA IV and I spent a lot of time inside it when it first came out.

This is cool

Money down the drain. Nice memory, but put the money toward something useful: hospitals, schools, libraries, parks, transportation, and so on. How much will be spent on structural repair that could go towards creation of permanent jobs?

How about sell the land to a developer to make apartments. How about you that?

Old people just don’t know how to let go