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Queens Museum of Art | The Panorama of the City of New York | overview from west of lower Manhattan, including the twin towers of the World Trade Center, the Empire State Building, the Brooklyn & Manhattan Bridges, Governors Island, Statue of Liberty, etc
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A number of years in the past, I got to see a 1:1500 scale mannequin of London at the Building Centre there. It is a big scale mannequin of the coronary heart of the metropolis in three dimensions, with representations of most buildings, landmarks, parks, the Thames, and the (at the time but to be constructed) Olympic Park.
It’s extraordinarily spectacular.
And it’s as nothing in comparison with The Panorama at the Queens Museum of Art.
Here’s two panorama photographs to provide a way of the scale:
• view from the “west”
• view from the ”south”
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Quoting from the Museum’s web page on the The Panorama of the City of New York:
The Panorama is the jewel in the crown of the assortment of the Queens Museum of Art. Built by Robert Moses for the 1964 World’s Fair, partially as a celebration of the City’s municipal infrastructure, this 9,335 sq. foot architectural mannequin consists of each single constructing constructed earlier than 1992 in all 5 boroughs; that could be a whole of 895,000 particular person constructions.
The Panorama was constructed by a crew of 100 folks working for the nice architectural mannequin makers Raymond Lester Associates in the three years earlier than the opening of the 1964 World’s Fair. In planning the mannequin, Lester Associates referred to aerial pictures, insurance coverage maps, and a variety of different City materials; the Panorama needed to be correct, certainly the preliminary contract demanded lower than one % margin of error between actuality and the mannequin. The Panorama was one of the most profitable points of interest at the ‘64 Fair with a each day common of 1,400 folks taking benefit of its 9 minute simulated helicopter trip round the City.
After the Fair the Panorama remained open to the public, its initially deliberate use as an city planning software seemingly forgotten. Until 1970 all of the modifications in the City had been precisely recreated in the mannequin by Lester’s crew. After 1970 only a few modifications had been made till 1992, when once more Lester Associates modified over 60,000 constructions to carry it up-to-date.
In the Spring of 2009 the Museum launched its Adopt-A-Building program with the set up of the Panorama’s latest addition, Citi Field, to proceed for the ongoing care and upkeep of this beloved treasure.
The Queens Museum of Art has a program supplying you with the alternative to “purchase” NYC actual property on The Panorama of the City of New York for as little as . To learn how you can become involved click here.
We hope that you’ll take time to take pleasure in the Panorama of the City of New York.
The Panorama of the City of New York is sponsored by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and New York State Assembly members Mike Gianaris, Mark Weprin, Audrey Pheffer, Nettie Mayersohn and Ivan Lafayette, The New York Mets Foundation and the supporters of the Adopt-A-Building Program.
View the successful footage from our Gala 2011 Panorama Picture Contest!
View pictures from our Gala 2011 Photo booth, May 12, 2011!
View pictures of the Panorama on its Flickr page
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Quoting now from The Panorama part in Wikipedia’s Queens Museum of Art article:
The greatest identified everlasting exhibition at the Queens Museum is the Panorama of the City of New York which was commissioned by Robert Moses for the 1964 World’s Fair. A celebration of the City’s municipal infrastructure, this 9,335-square-foot (867.2 m2) architectural mannequin consists of each single constructing constructed earlier than 1992 in all 5 boroughs; that could be a whole of 895,000 particular person constructions. The Panorama was constructed by a crew of 100 folks working for the architectural mannequin makers Raymond Lester Associates in the three years earlier than the opening of the 1964 World’s Fair. The Panorama was one of the most profitable points of interest at the ’64 Fair with a each day common of 1,400 folks taking benefit of its 9 minute simulated helicopter trip round the City. After the Fair the Panorama remained open to the public and till 1970 all of the modifications in the City had been precisely recreated in the mannequin by Lester’s crew. After 1970 only a few modifications had been made till 1992, when once more Lester Associates was employed to replace the mannequin to coincide with the re-opening of the museum. The mannequin makers modified over 60,000 constructions to carry it up-to-date.
In March 2009 the museum introduced the intention to replace the panorama on an ongoing foundation. To increase funds and draw public consideration the museum will permit people and builders to have correct fashions made of buildings newer than the 1992 replace created and added in change for a donation. Accurate fashions of smaller residence buildings and personal houses, now represented by generic fashions, will also be added. The twin towers of the World Trade Center shall be changed when the new buildings are created, the museum has chosen to permit them to stay till development is full fairly than representing an empty gap. The first new buildings to be added was the new Citi Field stadium of the New York Mets. The mannequin of the outdated Shea Stadium will proceed to be displayed elsewhere in the museum.
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Quoting now from the explanatory sign at the exhibit:
THE PANORAMA OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK
The Panorama of the City of New York, the world’s largest scale mannequin of its time, was the creation of Robert Moses and Raymond Lester. Presented in the New York City Pavilion as the metropolis’s premiere exhibit at the 1964/65 New York World’s Fair, it was meant afterwards to function an city planning software. Visitors skilled the Panorama from a simulated “helicopter” trip that travelled round perimeter or from a glass-enclosed balcony on the second ground, whereas information commentator Lowell Thomas supplied audio commentary on “The City of Opportunity.” One of the “helicopter” automobiles is now on view in the Museum’s everlasting exhibition, A Panoramic View: A History of the New York City Building and Flushing Meadows Corona Park.
Constructed at the Lester Associates workshop in Westchester, New York, the Panorama incorporates 273 separate sections, many of that are four-by-ten-foot rectangular panels. They are composed of Formica flakeboard topped with urethane foam slabs from which the typography was carved. Lester Associates’ workers consulted geological survey maps, aerial pictures, and books of City insurance coverage maps, to precisely render the City’s streets, highways, parks, and buildings. Once the Panorama’s modules had been accomplished at Lester Associates’ workshop, they had been assembled on website in the New York City Building. It took greater than 100 staff, three years to finish the mannequin.
Built on a sale of 1:1,200 (1 inch equals 100 toes), the Panorama occupies 9.335 sq. toes and precisely replicates New York City including all 320 sq. miles of its 5 boroughs and 771 miles of shoreline, in addition to the constructed surroundings. It consists of miniature automobiles, boats, and an airplane touchdown and taking off at LaGuardia Airport.
The majority of the City’s buildings are offered by standardized mannequin items made from wooden and acrylic. Of greater than 895,000 particular person constructions, 25,000 are custom-made to approximate landmarks equivalent to skyscrapers, massive factories, faculties, museums, and main church buildings. The quantity of element doable on most buildings is proscribed; at a scale of 1 inch to 100 toes, the mannequin of the Empire State Building measures solely 15 inches. The most correct constructions on the Panorama are its 35 main bridges, that are finely made of brass and formed by a chemical milling course of.
The mannequin is coloration coded to point numerous sorts of land use. The darkish inexperienced areas are parks. Parkways are additionally edged in darkish inexperienced. Mint inexperienced sections are associated to transportation including prepare and bus terminals. The pink rectangles that dot the City present the areas of leisure areas including playgrounds and tennis and basketball courts. Clusters of purple buildings are indicative of publicly sponsored housing.
Red, blue, inexperienced, yellow, and white coloured lights had been put in on the floor of the Panorama in 1964 to determine constructions housing City companies referring to safety, training, well being, recreation, commerce, welfare, and transportation. Overhead lights have been designed to run in a daybreak to nightfall cycle, and the nighttime impact is enhanced by ultraviolet paint, illuminated by blacklight.
In 1992, the City started a renovation of the Queens Museum of Art and the Panorama. Using their unique strategies, Lester Associates up to date the Panorama with 60,000 modifications. In the present instalation, designed by Rafael Viñoly Architects, guests comply with the course of the unique “helicopter” trip on an ascending ramp that permits them to expertise the Panorama of the City of New York from Multiple Perspectives.
Go Erica !
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If anybody can do it, you’ll be able to .
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I discovered this on the sidewalk, on this situation, a few mile from my residence . So far as i do know and recall, each flier i’ve from this previous election with a Democratic Party candidate’s photograph on it and urging me to vote for the particular person, i discovered on the floor ; and any which can have been directed to my mailbox both didn’t make it or had been filched by lock-picking memorabilia collectors . On the different hand, 6 pro-Trump fliers did make it to my mailbox .
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I imagine that it’s doable for folks of public belief to betray their belief ; in issues small, and issues consequential .
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An open letter,
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Mister President Obama, Mister Secretary Kerry, come to Allentown . This is your level of contact, or it must be .
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Come and assist encourage us to collect collectively in self-caucus to seek out out if what has been claimed in the return relating to our vote, (forged largely upon DRE machines with out VVPAT), resembles the means we collectively recall voting . Come and assist put aside futility which lies upon us — not nearly this previous election — however for all future ones … for i can let you know there are some on the road who will publically say what you’ll not, "I think it was rigged" . Come and encourage us to forgive all who will publically say how we forged our vote, for whomever it might have been, from whomever it might have come . Come encourage us to to danger retribution by opposing publically and, might or not it’s so, successfully one not well-known for a forgiving nature .
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There is a gulf opening on the road, between the tribes, the colours — and you’re feeding our despair by taking an untrusted and untested consequence as closing . You look a coward smiling at folks whose deeds it is best to oppose, if you don’t ; and exhibiting love to 1 whose elevation it is best to query, and haven’t . You are letting us down ; and that i imagine that if this temper on the road finds its personal outlet, because it inevitably should — if it isn’t directed towards the efficient to alloy the love you’re feeling guided to point out even Mr. Donald Trump — folks shall be damage . That might embody me .
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Be daring, Mr. President . Brave the present trial the Republicans might put you thru on your efforts . Brave impeachment and conviction and jail and even a death-sentence to divulge to the folks of this nation and this world that you’ve you personal conviction . That you’ve gotten The conviction . We live in, "the fierce urgency of now", now ; and it’s time so that you can personal your rhetoric .
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If fraud exists in our election trade, and whether it is as broad and deep and persistant and as favorable to the proper as i imagine it might be, one other 2 or 4 or 8 years would solely be our ticket deeper into oblivion . With an opportunity to fortify their place with Supreme Court and Service Commandant appointments — solely of their very own selecting — the proper wing of the Republican Party might put the Democratic Party itself on present trial if it ever once more rises to the degree of problem .
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Come additionally to take heed to our clergy and our barbers, the latter particularly ; for whereas an excellent Reverend rises to talk, an excellent barber rises to hear . The Democratic Party wants a farm system as badly as, (i imagine), it wants sincere elections . It wants native expertise to carry native voters to the polls in off and off-off yr elections . These folks can put you in contact with these whom, although they might not have sources or a spotless file, could make up for this with aptitude and curiosity and the neighborhood credibility to make a powerful run ; and serve effectively in workplace .
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The probability we will do these items with out you could be very small .
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Below are some gadgets that i hope shall be useful and difficult to you ; (including some redundancy) .
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The following is edited and expanded from a response i made on my fb timeline, (michaelcharlesyoung), to a publish by 350, (dot org) .
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Please additionally see my timeline’s earlier posts on the matter : 09 November, 18 October, 03 August, and 09 June 2016 . Thank you .
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One strategy to combating a Trump administration’s possible results on world warming may be to contest the outcomes .
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This might be tried by serving to voters in counties, (the place DRE, {direct-recording digital}, voting machines, {with out Voter Verified Paper Audit Trail, VVPAT} had been getting used), (in states which went unexpectedly, or unexpectedly strongly, to Trump on election day), self-caucus to find out who it was we recall having voted for . If the such caucuses could be made sufficiently full, and in the event that they present outcomes broadly totally different than these offered in the official return, collaborating voters might be requested to verify our recollections with signed affidavits which may type the foundation of class-action lawsuits difficult the returns ; (and the trade-secrecy safety of computerized voting machines’ software program and {hardware}) . If sufficiently broad variations could be discovered, i imagine a swimsuit might be introduced difficult the consequence itself .
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Here i notice that every DRE machine, as far as i recall having been advised, is put by a "logic and accuracy test" instantly previous to the opening of every polling place .
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As i recall, this includes a polling place employee booting the machine, and both throughout the boot course of with directions to the Basic Input-Output System, (BIOS), or following the loading of the Operating System, (OS), setting the system clock to an hour throughout which the election could be in progress . The employee then pretends to be a sequence of voters, casting ballots which might cowl all voting choices . The employee then verifies that these choices have been faithfully recorded ; and in that case, would clear or in any other case take away these take a look at votes . The machine would then be rebooted to be used in the election, with the system clock returned to the present time . It is essential to notice that the polling place employee could be performing in good religion right here .
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However, i’ve sufficient expertise programming computer systems to imagine that with adequate abilities, ingenuity, instruments and entry, the computerized voting machine could be programmed to go such take a look at — whether or not or not additionally it is programmed to be correct and even sincere throughout the election . Regarding this matter, i really feel that Wikipedia’s web page on a bundle of software program known as a Rootkit might have related data .
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In (the not less than imagined) mild of the above, i imagine that if broad discrepancies between the above-suggested self-caucusing and the official returns had been to be discovered, a swimsuit might be introduced in opposition to the election consequence itself … as it could imply that misrepresentation of the vote is/was both on the half of an amazing many self-revealed and sworn voters, or, deliberately, on the half of some skillful particular person or individuals who had accessed and programmed, (or reprogrammed), the machines .
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I stress that i don’t think about sworn self-declaration by voters to be a "recount" of an election, however a "real" depend, (ought to adequate numbers of voters take part) . In my opinion, ought to broad discrepancies implying that anybody’s vote had been undercounted, (inside the computerized voting tools), be discovered between the sworn, self-declared vote and the, (largely machine generated), return, the two almost certainly explanations could be that both
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1) Many individuals who trustingly, (or grudgingly), forged ballots upon these DRE machines, (with out VVPAT), could be mendacity of their subsequent affidavits relating to how that they had voted .
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2) The machines would have been maliciously and elegantly programmed (or reprogrammed) to lie on the file, seamlessly and invisibly ; and to take action after passing a logic and accuracy take a look at run by polling place staff performing in good religion . In such a case, there would by no means have been a depend of the vote to start with, solely the pretense of a depend .
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I notice additionally that i imagine legal conspiracies tend to leak in direct proportion to the quantity of folks concerned . Thus i imagine that if election fraud is being performed inside the computerized voting tools, the polling place staff themselves would in all probability be saved in the darkish about it ; although they may be conscious of irregularities equivalent to, (hypothetically), not posting a polling place’s unofficial return in the window following the election, (ought to this be required), for no matter period of time this may be required .
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If it may be introduced so far, i hope that Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. type demonstrations — effectively dressed, effectively mannered, decided folks exercising our proper to peaceably assemble and to petition our authorities — you, President Barack Obama, particularly — for a redress of grievances, will immediate you to place our swimsuit earlier than the Supreme Court .
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I dwell in Allentown, (Lehigh County), Pennsylvania ; the place our polling locations use DRE machines, (with out VVPAT), (supplied by Diebold) . According to the greatest data i’ve, our county delivered some 50-60% of our vote to Hillary Clinton . That appears low to me, and i’ve been making an attempt to encourage the folks of Allentown to self-caucus . The assist of your group and your followers could be appreciated .
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Our neighboring county, Northampton, is alleged to have delivered a plurality of its vote to Donald Trump . This may be value checking by means of self-caucus .
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Several counties, (including Miami-Dade), in Florida might likewise be value the effort .
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In the hypothetical case that each Pennsylvania and Florida had been stolen for Donald Trump by means of skillful fraud on the half of individuals who had programmed DRE machines with out VVPAT, the mistaken particular person would now be President-elect .
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Time appears fairly quick, although . I really feel that protest by itself won’t salvage the scenario ; that demonstration had greatest be behind one thing with authorized benefit, (as i really feel this could have) ; one thing which — for those who, President Obama, have the braveness — may forwarded on to the Supreme Court .
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If, as appears possible, the Supreme Court deadlocks, i really feel that the you, as President, have the authority to convene a Court Martial — comprised of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and of every service’s Chief Legal Officer, and of every service’s Chief Information Technology Officer, plus two randomly chosen, (from amongst these keen and nonetheless in the service), Congressional Medal of Honor winners — to aim likewise to succeed in a ruling . This could be as a result of our nation’s army oaths of workplace state first, (and presumably foremost), an obligation to assist and defend the structure of the United States in opposition to all enemies, international and home ; and secondly, for enlisted personnel, an obligation to obey the orders of the President of the United States, (the officer’s like obligation is implicit in the President’s function as Commander in Chief) . Thus i really feel that the army, to have a transparent obligation of obligation, is entitled, ought to the Supreme Court impasse and the President convene Court Martial upon the matter, to problem a binding ruling .
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I’d take this logic farther . As i see it, Article Two of the U.S. Constitution offers the President, (as Commander in Chief), no authority to require the army to just accept switch of energy to an individual whose health for command, or the legitimacy of whose election, or each, is severely unsure . In such case, i imagine that the Joint Chiefs would have the proper to convene Court Martial proceedings upon the matter over and above any order or measure to the opposite .
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Please additionally get in contact with verifiedvoting, (dot org), the place they’ve maps of the counties withing Pennsylvania and Florida utilizing DRE machines with out VVPAT .
