Flushing Meadows Corona Park (texte en français ci-dessous) Until the beginning of the 20th century, Flushing Meadows Corona Park existed only in the form of marshland, as its current name still suggests. It was really only in 1939, at the opening of the First World Fair, that the place became a park open to the public, once the marsh was filled in and part of the Corona houses destroyed to enlarge the space. In gratitude for this imposed sacrifice, the name Corona was added to Flushing Meadows in 1964, shortly before the inauguration of the Second World's Fair which was also held there. All that remains of the first fair is the general architecture of the park, but it is from this second period that some of the most astonishing sculptures of the place date, most of which relate to the exploration of space which, in 1964 was the new frontier: the Unisphere, which has become the symbol of the park, the New York State Pavilion with its flying saucer-shaped to...
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