Queens Museum
World's largest architectural scale model of a city, built for the nineteen sixty-four World's Fair.
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This guide to the Queens Museum's Panorama of the City of New York traces the model back to the 1964 World's Fair, when a dime bought visitors a ride aboard a helicopter car gliding over a scale replica of all five boroughs. It follows Robert Moses, who commissioned the piece, and the hundred workers who spent three years hand-building it in a warehouse in West Nyack. Stand at the railing and look for the tiny airplane that loops above the miniature airport.
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