New York State Pavilion
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New York State Pavilion
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| Location | Flushing Meadows–Corona Park, Flushing, New York 11368 |
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| Coordinates | 40°44′38.5″N 73°50′39.9″W / 40.744028°N 73.844417°WCoordinates: 40°44′38.5″N 73°50′39.9″W / 40.744028°N 73.844417°W |
| Area | less than one acre |
| Built | 1962–1964 |
| Architect | Johnson, Philip, Lev Zetlin |
| NRHP Reference # | 09000942 |
| Added to NRHP | November 20, 2009 |
The New York State Pavilion is a historic world's fair pavilion at Flushing Meadows–Corona Park in Flushing, Queens, New York. The New York State Pavilion was designed for the 1964 New York World's Fair by architects Philip Johnson and Lev Zetlin, and built between 1962 and 1964.
The pavilion consists of three components of reinforced concrete and steel construction: the "Tent of Tomorrow", Observation Towers, and "Theaterama":
The New York State Pavilion was one of two pavilions retained for future use; the other one was the United States Pavilion building. No reuse was ever found for the U.S. Pavilion however, and it became severely deteriorated and vandalized; it was ultimately demolished in 1977.
The New York State Pavilion was used for TV and movie sets, such as an episode of McCloud; for The Wiz; part of the setting (and the plot) for Men in Black; and the centerpiece for the Stark Expo in Iron Man 2. It was also the venue for rock concerts, as part of the Singer Bowl Festival in 1969, which included the Grateful Dead, Joe Cocker, Santana and other headline groups of the era (see for poster ads). It was also the filming location in 1987 for the video clip for the debut single by They Might Be Giants, Don't Let's Start.
In the decades after the fair closed, it was an abandoned and badly neglected relic, with its roof gone and the once bright floors and walls almost faded away. Once the red ceiling tiles were removed from the pavilion in the late 1970s, for safety reasons, the terrazzo floor was subject to the elements and was ruined. In 1994, the Queens Theatre took over the Circarama adjacent to the towers, and continues to operate there, using the ruined state pavilion as a storage depot.
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