April 2-3, 2011

Posted: April 6th, 2011 | Filed under: Brooklyn, Queens

Saturday we took the 7 train out to Corona . . .

. . . to the New York Hall of Science, which I had never been to. I love the quirky architecture of the Great Hall, which was originally built as a pavilion for the 1964-65 World’s Fair and which was designed by Wallace K. Harrison (who also designed the Rockefeller Apartments on 54th Street, the Time-Life Building on Sixth Avenue and the master plan for Lincoln Center, and was the lead architect for the United Nations complex):

This is one of the blocks up close:

The Mathematica exhibit (background here) is vintage 1960s — and as quirky and retro as the dioramas at the Museum of Natural History. A really cool treasure:

We also played miniature golf at the Rocket Park Mini Golf course, next to the Mercury-Atlas and Gemini-Titan rockets that were also from the ’64-’65 Fair:

At least one of us loved the cow eye dissection demonstration:

Took the train back via the 103 Street-Corona Plaza Station (with a pit stop for a Mama’s Special).

Sunday we went to Williamsburg to visit the Brooklyn Flea:

Here are some new pages for Bushwick Inlet Park (“inlet” is a horrible sounding word), the Citistorage Records Center (which will have to move if plans for the waterfront move forward), and the Williamsburg Edge (which doesn’t actually have any pictures of the buildings themselves . . . whoops!).

On the way back, we walked by the furrier on Manhattan Avenue, which we had read is going to close soon:

And back over the Pulaski Bridge: