People For the Pavilion

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This Thursday August 14! People for the Pavilion launches Pavilion Kids! with the Queens Museum. Our new educational outreach program for kids to learn about the New York State Pavilion.. http://eepurl.com/0Im4D

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People for the Pavilion, an advocacy group trying to preserve the rusting World’s Fair relic, will get $5 for every ticket sold through mets.com/pavilion. The offer also includes a limited-edition T-shirt for fans that features the architectural wonder in the Mets blue and orange team colors.

Mets will donate portion of Friday’s ticket sales to save New York State Pavilion

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Flushing Meadow - Worlds Fair Pavilion by TheMachineStops on Flickr.

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The World’s Fair, New York State Pavilion, Philip Johnson, 1964 — Ezra Stoller

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“but there’s chemistry, and no jealousy.” 24x36” 5 color screenprint. 2013 the 4th print in my NYC series. to be released at my show at The Cotton Candy Machine in Brooklyn NY on may 10th.

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The Parks Department said the first round of work will be performed "to stabilize the structures."  http://dnainfo.com/new-york/20140630/corona/new-york-state-pavilion-restoration-set-begin-with-6m-upgrade 

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Free Pavilion Mets t-shirt when you buy your tickets at www.mets.com/pavilion @mets

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Face on the side of the New York State Pavilion

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The New York State Pavilion

Remains of the ‘64 World’s Fair in Flushing Meadows Park

Queens, New York City, USA.

"You can’t miss the towers topped by flying saucers, surrounded by 100-foot-high (30-meter-high) concrete pillars. This was the New York State Pavilion, where visitors rode elevators to an observation deck above an enormous suspended roof of translucent colored tiles. Today the structure is padlocked, rusted and cracked, with preservationists and critics fighting over its future."

But on April 22nd they opened the doors. I got to stand in a very long queue and wait for over three hours for my opportunity to wear one of 65 hard hats for ten minutes inside the pavilion. During which time I quickly shot off a great many exposures with my full frame SONY A7r and Zeiss 24-70mm FE lens.

This includes the 11 × 36MP vertical exposures seen here stitched together, cropped and tweaked in Photoshop.

You may purchase a print of this image at my Fine Art America Gallery by clicking here

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I had an opportunity yesterday to visit the New York State Pavilion, which sits on the old grounds of the 1964-65 New York World’s Fair. Even after several decades of decay it’s still a magnificent structure.

For anyone interested, I documented the day with lots of photos and words.

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"It is rare to find an architectural project whose history makes such strange bedfellows as the New York State Pavilion: a master architect and millions of exhibition patrons, roller skaters and rock stars, stray cats and Iron Man [1]. For three hours on April 22, in honor of the fifty year anniversary of the 1964-65 New York World’s Fair, the city of Queens will open the long shuttered gates to Phillip Johnson’s most futuristic work.”   — Arch Daily

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PFP Talk with Photographer Jade Doskow at Onishi Project’s World’s Fairs: Lost UtopiasExhibition 

@jadedoskow http://www.jadedoskow.com/

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Pavilion Group Visits CB1; Announce Mets Tix Offer

@queensgazette http://www.qgazette.com/news/2014-06-25/Features/Pavilion_Group_Visits_CB1_Announce_Mets_Tix_Offer.html

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Free @mets Pavilion t-shirts when you come out on August 1. Purchase Tickets at www.mets.com/pavilion  

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To view past Newsletter updates visit  http://tinyurl.com/m9ub96r #nysp50

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Hot off the press! Check out our latest Newsletter @ http://tinyurl.com/lmp48mc

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Matthew and Salmaan speak with Brian Lehrer about the efforts of People For the Pavilion @wnyc brianlehrer