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New York's Dads.
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A round-up of our favorite pics of your dads on Urban Archive.
Modeling the Water Supply
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The Board of Water Supply used models for design and celebration, from critically serious to comical and extravagant. Models were communication tools, explaining and promoting the City’s infrastructure projects, and sometimes helped determine the locations of structures or best way to build them. This story starts with some technical models, then looks at those that celebrated NYC’s water supply system and world-class engineering.
Meet You At Essex & Canal For Some Pop-Up Sukkot Holiday Shopping
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The intersection of downtown's Canal and Essex has long been a favorite for seasonal Jewish holiday shopping. Specifically, for the date palm fronds, ritual citron fruits, myrtle and willow branches required for prayers on the Sukkoth, or sukes in Yiddish, harvest holiday. These are still only sold in the brief window of time that is the week after the Day of Atonement and the start of Sukkoth, usually by local community street vendors that build temporary pop-up kiosks just for that purpose.
New York Loves Dads
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You submitted, and we rounded up our faves! Here are some spectacular shots of dads across NYC's five boroughs throughout the years. Happy Father’s Day!
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New York Worlds Fair, New York City Building, bird's eye view.
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\[1939 World's Fair, building the model of New York City].
Queens Museum, New York City Building
\[1939 World's Fair, building the model of New York City].
Queens Museum, New York City Building
\[1939 World's Fair, building the model of New York City].
Queens Museum, New York City Building
\[1939 World's Fair, building the model of New York City].
Queens Museum, New York City Building
\[1939 World's Fair, building the model of New York City].
Queens Museum, New York City Building
\[1939 World's Fair, building the model of New York City].
Queens Museum, New York City Building
\[1939 World's Fair, building the model of New York City].
Queens Museum, New York City Building
\[1939 World's Fair, building the model of New York City].
Queens Museum, New York City Building
\[1939 World's Fair, building the model of New York City].
Queens Museum, New York City Building
\[1939 World's Fair, building the model of New York City].
Queens Museum, New York City Building
Board of Water Supply. New York World's Fair, Flushing Meadows, Board of Water Supply Exhibit in the New York City Pavilion. Map showing locations of Delaware, Catskill, and Croton watersheds and aqueducts; and profile of Delaware Aqueduct and view showing Ashokan Aerator and beginning of the Catskill Aqueduct. September 7, 1939.
Queens Museum, New York City Building
\[1939 World's Fair, building the model of New York City].
Queens Museum, New York City Building
\[1939 World's Fair, building the model of New York City].
Queens Museum, New York City Building
\[1939 World's Fair, building the model of New York City].
Queens Museum, New York City Building
\[1939 World's Fair, building the model of New York City].
Queens Museum, New York City Building
\[1939 World's Fair, building the model of New York City].
Queens Museum, New York City Building
\[1939 World's Fair, building the model of New York City].
Queens Museum, New York City Building
\[1939 World's Fair, building the model of New York City].
Queens Museum, New York City Building
\[1939 World's Fair, building the model of New York City].
Queens Museum, New York City Building
Board of Water Supply. New York World's Fair, Flushing Meadows, Board of Water Supply Exhibit in the New York City Pavilion. Map showing locations of Delaware, Catskill, and Croton watersheds and aqueducts. September 7, 1939.
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1939 World's Fair: New York City Building, Exterior View
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United Nations General Assembly Building United Nations building, previously, the New York City Building of the 1939-40 New York World's Fair. The UN General Assembly was held here, until the UN moved to their permanent home in Manhattan, in 1951. the building was later used for the Queens Museum.; Hand written on back of print: United Nations (New York City Bldg.) at Flushing Meadow Park 4/1946
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Section of watershed model created for the 1939 World's Fair on exhibit at Queens Museum in 2005. The relief map was made by the Works Progress Administration's Cartographic Study.
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The complete, restored watershed model created for the 1939 World's Fair in its permanent home at the Queens Museum in 2020.
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New York City Building with Trylon and Perisphere visible in the background. Currently this area is the Queens Museum.
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At the Queens Museum's reopening on November 13, 1972.
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Entrance to the Queens Musuem. Photo taken January 16, 1975.
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For the World's Fair anniversary celebration in 2015, oral histories were conducted at the Queens Museum by volunteers of the Queens Memory Project
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