Flushing Meadows Corona Park - a huge park in Queens to the south of LaGuardia Airport. In size it is the fourth largest in New York and filled with monuments to the limit with amazing history.

In the twenties of the last century here in the area with the beautiful name of the Crown, lay stinking dump ash from coal-fired furnaces. Scott Fitzgerald in "The Great Gatsby" is a place called the Valley of Ashes. In the midst of the Great Depression, a group of retired police officers decided that to raise the spirit of the nation it is necessary to hold the World's Fair in the United States. The proposal to convert the dump into a park for the exhibition endorsed reformer New York Robert Moses.

Initially named the new island green Flushing Meadows Park. Three decades later added the name "Crown". He explained it this way: the name of the district was "awarded" a dump, and now, when there appeared something beautiful, still holds the name to give a new meaning.

The exhibition of 1939-1940 was attended by over 44 million people. There they saw the wonders of technology: an electronic voice synthesizer, an electric typewriter and calculator on punch cards. After World War II the building was used to house the exhibition of the UN - until she moved to Manhattan. This only remaining structure from that time is now Queens Museum of Art.

More voluminous legacy left years 1964-1965 World's Fair, which was held under the sign of the era of space exploration. Since then, the park is "unisfer" model of the Earth from a height of twelve-house, surrounded by three orbits: Yuri Gagarin, John Glenn and the first communications satellite. Next - Marshall Fredericks sculpture "Freedom of the human spirit": naked man and a woman floating in space. Nearby - semi-abandoned pavilion of New York, where the vegetation slowly devours a magnificent mosaic floor depicting a road map of the state.

The event was the exhibition pavilion of the Vatican with the famous "Pieta" by Michelangelo. The real sculpture was brought to New York for the Italian liner "Christopher Columbus." Priceless pieces packed in a sealed box filled with foam: the container is not even drowned in a shipwreck. In 1965, the exhibition was visited by Pope Paul VI. Now the place where the pavilion and present pope, the bench noted marble.

About resembles the current "Hall of Science" - he tells of flying into space, the oceans, the fight against disease. The style of the beginning of the space age made standing in the green sculpture by Donald De Lu "Thrower missiles" (bronze figure, which starts with the palm of the rocket) and a statue of the Polish sculptor Theodore Roszak (aircraft of the future, reminiscent of the supersonic "Concorde").

Near the dilapidated pavilion of New York - with the rise of the concrete circle in the center. Here are buried the time capsule, which is scheduled to open in five thousand years. They - filter cigarettes, seeds, rechargeable flashlights, credit cards, electric toothbrush.