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Skating Classic New York City Street Spots
Video Highlighting Classic New York City Street Skate Spots
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Red Bull recently created this skate video showing local skaters in some classic NYC street spots. They talk about skating in spots like Brower Park in Brooklyn, Flushing Meadows Park in…

World Fair
World Fair, a Documentary About the 1939 New York World's Fair Including Vintage Footage
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In 2013, filmmaker Amanda Murray created this amazing 20-minute documentary titled World Fair about the 1939 New York World's Fair in Queens. Using sparkling, rare, colour film footage –…

The Tent of Tomorrow in the New York State Pavilion from the 1964-65 World’s Fair. At what is now Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in Queens. On the floor the largest map in the world at the time, a 130-by-166-foot map of New York State.
Vintage Photograph Shows Original Map Floor of the New York State Pavilion at 1964-65 World's Fair
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You would never know it now, but the floor of the "Tent of Tomorrow" in the New York State Pavilion at Flushing Meadows-Corona Park used to have an impressive map across the entire floor,…

The Century Old Idea that Can Revolutionize NYC Commuter Rail
[VIDEO] The Century Old Idea that Can Revolutionize NYC Commuter Rail
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In the 1920s, New York City faced a capacity crisis at Penn Station, leading the New Jersey legislature to form the North Jersey Transit Commission. Their 1926 report advocated for "through…