Godzilla in New York City

Wednesday - July 30, 2008

Godzilla in New York City

Yesterday, I went to the Queens Museum of Art to photograph the "panorama" of New York City. I definitely was not prepared for what was inside that lonely building sitting in the shadow of the Unisphere in Flushing Meadows Corona Park. Imagine looking at a huge aerial photograph of the city, then make that picture three dimensional and jump into it. You become Godzilla and the Twin Towers become the size of a hot dog. This was how I spent my Tuesday in Queens.

(Photo by Gabriel Dance)

The Panorama of the City of New York is the jewel in the crown of the collection of the Queens Museum of Art. Built by Robert Moses for the 1964 World’s Fair, in part as a celebration of the City’s municipal infrastructure, this 9,335 square foot architectural model includes every single building constructed before 1992 in all five boroughs; that is a total of 895,000 individual structures. It is the thing that everyone who has visited the Museum recalls. -via queensmuseum.org.