News You Can Bruise for 2009 December 27 (entry 1)

(1) Sun Dec 27 2009 13:32 Today's Pictures: Special "Not A Special Edition" edition: Today's theme is New York walks. From 2009 (in fact, from Friday), I take Sumana to Corona Park, former garbage dump, site of two World's Fairs, now the world's most desolate park. Well, I always seem to go in the winter on major holidays, but it suffers from serious institutional neglect as well. For instance, the city built a fancy new theater building next to the iconic Pavilion and Towers, but they forgot to fix the Pavilion and Towers themselves! They're unsafe and fenced off. I guess you can't tear them down and it's too expensive to rebuild them, so they just stay there, rusting. It's a great park precisely because of its clear history of decline, but I wouldn't complain if the city decided to restore it to its World's Fair glory.

In a busier part of New York, it's a photo record of Sumana and her sister walking down Broadway the entire length of Manhattan, back in 2008. Caution: includes Charles in Charge novelization.

Comments:

Posted by John at Sun Dec 27 2009 17:45

I remember going there in November 2008 with you. It seemed that, due to decent weather and no snow, quite a few soccer games were taking place. But overall an empty park.

Also, I wonder if the park sees better days during the US Open, or during Mets games.