Photo Source: &COP 2002 Rod Smith, All Rights Reserved

Terrace on the Park... the former Port Authority Heliport is now a banquet and catering facility. It is one of the few surviving structures from the Fair remaining in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park.

The View from the Top

The View from the Top... These shots taken from Terrace on the Park, the former Port Authority Heliport, show how the Park looks today. It's difficult to image that more than 150 buildings once stood on the site of this veritable forest of trees. From top to bottom ... the New York Hall of Science ... the Arthur Ashe Stadium on the site of the former Federal Pavilion ... the NY City Building with Unisphere immediately behind ... the NY State Pavilion ... the Children's Petting Zoo on the site of the former Chrysler Pavilion. Contrast this view with The View from the Top on the Gallery Page. Photos Source: © 2002 Rod Smith, All Rights Reserved

Inside Terrace on the Park

Photos Source: © 2002 Rod Smith, All Rights Reserved

Webmaster's note... I'd like to THANK those who contributed materials to the Port Authority pages at nywf64.com. To Rod Smith who waited patiently for six(!) years to see his photos of Terrace on the Park online. As always, to Bill Cotter for contributing photos to the feature from his fabulous collection of slides. To Gary Holmes for the Press Release. To Bradd Schiffman for scans of the Fair's Progress Reports and FAIR NEWs newsletters which make it oh so easy to work with to put online. And to Eric Paddon for the copy of Business Screen Magazine with its great behind-the-scenes stories of "how they did that" at the Fair. Bill Young March, 2008