We have reached a milestone.  The photograph below depicts the paint crew about to complete the last stripe on the pavilion. However, we are not quite finished with the NYSP project which began back in 2009.  There are entryway and yellow sections to attend to and exterior sections to touch up and repair from water damage, but we have officially put paint on every stripe inside and out.

We have many to thank for reaching this milestone, especially the sixty four contributions over the past eight months or so through our GoFundMe. We also must show gratitude to the Flushing Meadows Corona Park Parks Department for sharing our concerns and lending support as they could. Many thanks to the paint crew’s unending enthusiasm and commitment, the many other supporters with a good word for the effort and the media coverage which has spread the story nationwide in Preservation Magazine. A special thank you to John Piro whose vision started this whole process moving forward.

We will continue the project over the winter if possible, it may be too cold for paint but there is much clean-up and minor repairs we can do within our means to help protect and prepare the pavilion for next year’s anniversary of the opening of the 1964-65 New York World's Fair.

We are also looking toward the future!  Our project was just the ground work for raising awareness and proving that something can be done by concerned citizens with passion and concern.  We all want to see the pavilion saved and there is much work needed to give it that chance. We are looking forward to a documentary being produced by Aquarela Pictures on the history and plight of the pavilion (including the paint effort!).  There is also a non-profit group forming- People for the Pavilion, that we should all show support for (keep a watch in social media circles). This effort will hopefully garner the support from the people and officials that can fund and maintain a viable reuse for the pavilion by restoring it to its former glory or better!

There is another much anticipated documentary focusing on most of the legacies from the fair where the NYSP will be featured. "After the Fair" also includs our effort! An amazing work in post production will surely bring increased attention to the pavilion.

We all may have different visions of what the future holds for the New York State Pavilion. Some want to see it as it was on opening day of the Fair in 1964; some may want it to be retained as a ruin; others see it as a new functioning entity. What we do share though is the vision of the pavilion being alive, thriving, standing proud as it once did representing the heart of the city, the state and the people with its best foot forward at all times. 

Please support all efforts to save the pavilion. We need the voice of the people. Look for announcements and upcoming events in the future.  Thank you!