Giant map of NYC in the Queens Museum of Art. Robert Moses had ‘The Panorama of the City of New York’ built for the 1964 World’s Fair, but it has been updated, and supposedly has every building built before 1992. Originally you flew over it on a simulate helicopter ride. Now there is a ramp that spirals around it from the first to second floor of the museum.
www.queensmuseum.org/panorama/about.htm
I uploaded this full size panorama of Lower Manhattan so my neighbors can have fun finding their own apartment building.
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wow! wow! are you flying?
Yes over the Queens Museum of Art, joujou.
do you know what the date of this is?
thanks man, i have to go see that, it would have kinda been cool to see it as it was in 64 to see the old city.
I added the info above, W.
so cool
There was another of these constructed around 1860 or so that had every building, gas lamp etc that I read about, it was big but over time it was lost in bits and pieces and finally vanished.
I believe the NYC public library site has a number of large printed maps you need MrSID software to view, one has every building drawn to scale in a realistic perspective angle, and the drawings are detailed enough the windows are drawn in. The file was huge, maybe 20 megs but you could zoom WAY in, here’s a tiny crop I used on my site, it shows the detail level well;
flickr.com/photos/91263176@N00/2045197632/
Special request for a shot of my house! Aim near stuyvesant town next time…. near Tompkins sqaure park.
RBB, you should be able to see it in the full size version of this one:
It’s about as good as I can do without a tripod, which I’m not sure if they would have allowed.
Very cool, Lost-NYC. I wonder if there are any photos of the one from the 1860’s..
I don’t know what might be available, it was referenced in a book on NYC I had, briefly described and I seem to remember there was a line cut drawing of it- remember- back then newspapers and all seemed to use mostly line cuts like that map I posted above, rather than actual photographs. I think this was the case untill the 1890’s or thereabouts that the drawings gave way to photos.
Maybe it was a technical as well as cost issue that photos were not widely used in newspapers and magazines back then.
The Panorama was built by a team of 100 people working for the great architectural model makers Raymond Lester Associates in the three years before the opening of the 1964 World’s Fair.
Flux Factory began as a collective living space in 1994, in an old spice factory in Williamsburg, New York City. Its original members were undergraduates at the New School For Social Research (now New School University). About four years later, with a new stage built and twice as many members, the Flux Factory living room evolved into a site for art events and performances of all kinds. Flux became an official 501 (c)(3) nonprofit in 1999 and moved to its present location in Long Island City, Queens in 2002.
http://www.fluxfactory.org
I was in LA a couple of weeks ago and a friend from high school was telling me about this. Have to get there. I want to find the house I grew up in (in the Bronx).
Thanks for all the info…this is great stuff.