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RELEASE: Tuesday, March 25, 2014
MEDIA ADVISORY: BOROUGH PRESIDENT KATZ,
ASSEMBLY
MEMBER MARKEY
AND THE WORLD’S FAIR
ANNIVERSARY COMMITTEE
TO HOLD PRESS
CONFERENCE ANNOUNCING SLATE OF EVENTS
MARKING
ANNIVERSARIES OF 1939 AND 1964 WORLD’S FAIRS
Queens
Borough President Melinda Katz and state Assembly Member Margaret Markey, the
co-chairs of the World’s Fair Anniversary Committee, will host a press
conference on Friday, March 28 at 11:30 a.m. to announce the scheduling of a
six-month series of events to celebrate the 50th and 75th
anniversaries of the 1964 and 1939 World’s Fairs, which were held in what is
now Flushing Meadows Corona Park in Queens.
The
press conference will take place in Flushing Meadows Corona Park at the
Unisphere, the huge globe erected for the 1964 World’s Fair that has since
become a cultural icon known worldwide as a symbol of Queens.
Among
the events to be announced on Friday will be an opening ceremony at the New
York State Pavilion at 10:45 a.m. on Tuesday, April 22. That date will be
exactly 50 years to the day after the 1964’s World Fair opened to the public.
This
year’s opening ceremony will be followed by a rare opportunity for the public
to tour the New York State Pavilion. The tours will take place between 11 a.m. and
2 p.m. on Tuesday, April 22.
Another event to be announced Friday will
be NYC Parks’ “World’s Fair Anniversary Festival,” a day of great food, great
rides, live entertainment, World’s Fair memorabilia and more that will be
co-sponsored by the Queens Borough President’s Office and held in Flushing
Meadows Corona Park on Sunday, May 18.
A
variety of Queens cultural institutions will also be holding World’s Fair
Anniversary events this year that will be part of the schedule of festivities
to be released at Friday’s press conference.
Also to be released Friday will be a
brochure on World’s Fair Anniversary events produced by the Queens Tourism
Council, a division of the Queens Economic Development Corporation and a member
of the World’s Fair Anniversary Committee. In addition, the Queens Tourism
Council will unveil a website Friday offering up-to-date information on World’s
Fair Anniversary events.
Borough
President Katz and Assembly Member Markey are hosting the press conference in
their capacities as co-chairs of the World’s Fair Anniversary Committee, an
umbrella group that includes elected officials, the City’s Parks Department,
the Queens Tourism Council and the participating cultural organizations that
will be hosting World’s Fair Anniversary events. Katz and Markey will offer
remarks during the press conference along with representatives from NYC Parks,
NYC and Company and other members of the World’s Fair Anniversary Committee.
The additional organizations represented
on the World’s Fair Anniversary Committee include theFlushing Meadows-Corona
Park Conservancy, the Louis Armstrong House Museum, the Museum of the Moving
Image, the New York Daily News, the New York Hall of Science, the New York Mets,
the Noguchi Museum, the Port Authority of NY & NJ, theQueens Botanical
Garden, the Queens Chamber of Commerce, Queens College, the Queens Historical
Society,the Queens Museum, the Queens Theatre and the United States Tennis
Association.
WHAT: A press conference announcing
a slate of events marking the anniversaries of 1939 and 1964 World’s Fairs
WHEN:Friday, March 28 at
11:30 a.m.
WHERE:The Unisphere at
Flushing Meadows Corona Park
Parking
for the press will be available in the parking lots of the Queens Museum, just
steps away from the Unisphere
In
case of inclement weather, the press conference will be held in the lobby of
the Queens Museumon the same date and time.
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