(rshsdepot) Re: United Nations Station

[Joseph Brennan <brennan_@_columbia.edu>]

The U N was located at the former Worlds Fair site for a short time.
The station is at the site of the 1939-40 Worlds Fair station, which
later was the site of the 1964-65 Worlds Fair station, now called Shea
Stadium.  The bridge connected Northern Blvd with the Worlds Fair site
and was mainly for pedestrians crossing from the subway station to the
fair.  It doesn't look familiar because it was replaced before 1964 by a 
larger bridge that is there now.

I'd guess looking east, at the hill in Flushing, because the main station
buildings of the present station are on the west side of the footbridge
and chances are that's where the earlier ones were. 

Joe







- --On Friday, March 22, 2002 01:28 -0500 "Paul S. Luchter" <luckyshow_@_mindspring.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> Here is a Times photo from 9/23/1946. The United nations would be at Lake Success/New Hyde Park
> (and the remaining historic buildings were recently demolished), and there were meetings there,
> but there were also meetings at a site at the former World's Fair site at the former New York
> City pavilion/building (still there today as a museum or is it an ice rink, the big model of New
> York City is inside now. It is off the Grand Central Parkway.) This was a second picture above
> the caption at the top of this scan    
> Beginning on 10/23 there were to be United nations meetings at this building in  Flushing
> Meadows.  here is a picture of the United Nations Long Island Railroad station for these meeting.
> I believe it was the World's Fair Station and is today the Shea Stadium Station. I am unsure
> which way we are looking. East towards Grand Central Parkway (I can't recall if the LIRR goes
> over or under the GCT. Maybe there was a road bridge at that time (I don't think there is one
> now, though I don't remember what is used by the Mets fans from the LIRR station to Shea either),
> maybe we are looking east. This is the Port Washington branch. Once there were Corona and
> Elmhurst Stations to the west, Flushing is next station east.    
> This may also be called Willet's Point station today, though Willet's Point is really up NE  at
> Fort Totten east of the Throggs Neck bridge-a star shaped fort (now gone) with the first
> pedestrian tunnel (600 feet) between the battery and the rest of the complex. There were also
> Nike missiles based here, these were matched with missiles at Fort Tilden at the western point of
> Rockaway Peninsula. All forts had a twin. Fort Totten's was Fort Schuyler on the Throgg's Neck in
> the Bronx, Fort Tilden's was Fort Monmouth at Sandy Hook.    
> Which direction are we looking in this UN Station photo, what is the overpass in the background?
> Does anyone have any information on this United Stations LIRR station?    
> Paul


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