Flushing meadows-Corona Park – a huge Park in Queens to the South of LaGuardia airport. In size it ranks fourth in new York and to limit saturated monuments with an amazing history.

In the twenties of the last century here in the area with the beautiful name Crown, lay stinking dump ash from coal furnaces. Scott Fitzgerald in "the Great Gatsby" was called the Valley of Ashes. In the midst of the great depression a group of retired police decided to lift the spirit of the nation should be conducted in the U.S. world's fair. The proposal to convert the landfill into a Park for exhibition approved reformer of new York Robert Moses.

At first the new island of greenery called flushing meadows Park. Three decades later, the title has added a "Crown". Explained it this way: the name of the district was assigned a dumping ground, and now, when there appeared to be something beautiful, still named after fair to give new meaning.

The fair of 1939-1940 was attended by over 44 million people. Here they saw the wonders of technology: electronic voice synthesizer, electric typewriter and the calculator on punch cards. After the Second world war exhibition building was used to house the UN – until she moved to Manhattan. This is the only surviving since the structure now houses the Museum of Art Queens.

More voluminous legacy world fair 1964-1965, held under the sign of the beginning of the era of space. Since the Park is "Unisphere", a model of the Earth the height of a twelve-storey house, surrounded by three orbits: Yuri Gagarin, John Glenn and the first communications satellite. Near – sculpture by Marshall Fredericks, "Freedom of the human spirit": a Nude man and woman floating in space. Near the abandoned pavilion of the state of new York, in which the vegetation is slowly devouring a magnificent mosaic floor depicting a road map of the state.

The highlight of the show was the pavilion of the Vatican with the famous "Pietà" by Michelangelo. Authentic sculpture was brought to new York on the Italian liner "Christopher Columbus". A priceless work Packed in a sealed box, filled with Styrofoam: the container does not drown even in a shipwreck. In 1965, the exhibition was visited by Pope Paul VI. Now the place where the pavilion and was attended by the Pope, marked by a marble bench.

About the exhibition is reminiscent of the current "Hall of science" – he talks about going into space, the oceans, disease. In the style of the beginning of the space age made standing among the greenery of the sculpture of Donald De Liu "rocket Thrower" (a bronze figure, with the palm which starts the rocket) and the statue of the Polish sculptor Theodor Resaca (aircraft of the future, reminiscent of the supersonic "Concorde").

Next to a dilapidated pavilion of the state of new York is a concrete circle with a raised centre. Here are buried the time capsule, which is scheduled to open in five thousand years. In them – filter cigarettes, plant seeds, rechargeable flashlight, credit card, electric toothbrush.