nineteen sixty four and will continue through nineteen sixty five this coincides with the three hundred have very strange of the founding of the great city of new and we invite all of our friends throughout the united states canada from all parts of the world to come and visit this great bear so it's not only will this be a terrific attraction but new york city itself is a great attraction and at that time we will have open our great new lincoln center which will be the cultural center of the world i know a lot terril highways will make it easier to get to the fair and once you're at the fair i know it will be an experience that all americans and all visitors will be proud of and think of the many years and i'm sure will help in the struggle we all go through for world peace in a weary and tired world of today the fair will be ideally located first of all this part of me are cand new jersey comprises one of the greatest metropolitan areas in the world new york city alone with its five barrels as a land area of about three hundred twenty square miles of this area it is the geographic center close to it is new york city's population center and here ideally located in the very heart of the city is flushing meadow park the site of the new  york from nineteen sixty four and nineteen sixty five place of a grassy lawn that was a swamp then by heroic effort always change the swamp was rain thirty years accumulation of refuse and waste was towed out to sea the flushing meadow became the site of the first new york world's fair now twenty years of baths and the old fair is just  and other cornerstone laying was a man named robert moses landlord of that for the year nineteen thirty eight again decades since fateful nineteen twenty nine the world was ready for a holiday  but nobody seemed to mind the fare was on and the music was simply  at night there was another kind of exhibit and he's had her wonderland and dorothy her land of oz but new york has the fan and it was pure and chan quiet the trees have grown to love lane maturity the paths where millions drab there the scars of age the voices of multitudes and the sounds of music are gone from flushing meadow but not for ever for work on the new fair has already begun at the new york city building on october twenty seven nineteen sixty mr robert moses president of the new york world's fair corporation arrived for the day's work is interviewed by john tillman our you commissioner nice to see you again sir if you don't mind i like just to take a moment here to ask you a few questions about the nine hundred sixty four sixty five world's fair suppose we start out the virus king what is the overall purpose of the new fair well a over all stated purposes education for brother or brother or girl education that i have fixed in incorporation and in the agreement of the united states treasury this has to be an educational institution to get tax exemption now or physically commissioner what will the new fair look like do you think about that they will be more elaborate exhibits to be more modern exhibits will be more costly exhibits that the last pair but do you feel the the overall results hinterland and from abroad i think it's likely to have a very substantial effect on international affairs as a people meet here on the common ground there aren't any ideologies and is no diplomacy involved as simply bring that bread best product and exhibit them just like an olympic games accepting it applies to industry and business thank you very much commissioner for taking a little time out here f you and i have a lot to work and so you again thank you very much sir as president of the fair corporation mr moses attends meetings of the corporation's executive committee the group responsible for making all the top level at other locations like new york's metropolitan club to preside over the fair corporation's board of directors on the board some of the new york city's most distinguished names in advertising public relations radio and television transportation publishing and the arts let's see what plans these men have made for the new york world's fair the fair will occupy six hundred forty six acres in addition to the lake area there will be four other exhibit areas industrial international federal and state and transportation that's considered huge in turn for the industrial exhibit work got underway at the new york city building on august fourth nineteen sixty where representatives from leading united states manufacturers gathered for  briefing hundreds of industrialists where there representing almost two hundred going i did states companies a man opening remarks were made by mr stewart constable operations vice president for the fair mr constable introduced mr moses who emphasize the importance of the new highway program to provide adequate transportation to the failed these are just lies automatically slaves are being constructed the money is there those divisions in a sargon as a sion are brilliant their driving their most competent mr j anthony pena vice president in charge of industrial federal state and special exhibit response was quick and enthusiastic by march first of nineteen sixty one almost one half of the space in the industrial area had been committed invitations for the international exhibits and then presented to governments industrial and cultural groups all over the world on august fourteenth nineteen sixty the first visiting team left for overse two foreign countries that announced participation in the international area in this area our own federal and state governments will have their exhibits federal participation was a d by president kennedy on february first in a meeting with mr moses and mr dean at the white house and three x presidents of the united states herbert hoover dwight eisenhower have added their support as honorary chairman of the fair and nelson a rockefeller governor of the state of new york invited all of the states to exhibit and appointed lieutenant governor malcolm wilson to develop plans for the new york state exhibit the transportation exhibit section of the fair will be under the supervision of the port of new york authority for this report let us hear from the chairman of the authority mr sloan called on eighty acres of flushing meadow park we have rain together america's great automobile airline maritime railroad bus truck and aerospace industries and the millions of people who visit the fair in one nine hundred sixty four and one thousand nine hundred sixty five will enjoy the unequal transportation facilities of the port of new york the great new terminal now under construction at la guardia airport magnificent new york international airport newark airport the hell i bought at thirty a street and the wall street area and the great complex of railroads highways and new bus terminals will play an important part in transporting visitors to this great day the three airports have served fourt people and you're running from the know the new york central and the new haven from the south to pennsylvania and then it's run from the east the long island railroad carries four and a half million people in a single day of the three lines that run to the general area one will serve the fan direct arterial system that will carry millions to the fare from a all point in the area of the fair alone ninety five million dollars ninety percent federal and ten percent state will be spent on arterial improvements that will be completed when the payroll as the grand central parkway will be widened for a distance of nine and one half miles construction to begin in the spring of nineteen sixty one the existing van white expressway will be extended to run along the east border of flushing meadow to create an important new artery the northern boulevard will be widened and improved from the grand central parkway to the flushing remembering the white stone expressway will be widened from the fashing river bridge to the white stone planner behind arterial improvements like these is robert moses these projects together with the new york's other transportation facilities will make the flushing meadow one of the most accessible places in the world now first construction for the fair got underway groundsman spoken for the new administration building on august fourth nineteen sixty groundbreaking the administration building was completed on this day january eleventh nineteen sixty one the new administration building would be dedicated and the new first traffic over the bridge from the bridge cavalcade speeds along the new clearview expressway then makes the turn into the long island expressway millions of visitors to the fair will travel countries this event made news and reporters file their stories at the scene in charge of press radio and television for the fair is vice president of exact scale replica of the fairgrounds as buildings and exhibits constructed they will be added in miniature to the model an important feature of the fair will be symbol to be built by the united states steel corporation here on february fourteenth nineteen sixty one contracts were signed with the fair by this agreement the united states steel corporation represented here by mr roger name blau chairman of the bod will present to the fair corporation the team symbol called the unit scale there is a giant world load of stainless here on new york's west side is being constructed to the great lincoln center for the performing arts here will be a center for the symphony ballet drama and the opera this will be the home on the project are some of the finest aka texas musicians and city planners in america chairman of the board of lincoln center is john d rockefeller under his leadership construction at the center began on may f nineteen fifty nine with the groundbreaking ceremony president eisenhower spoke of the importance of the center here will develop a mighty influence for peace and understanding throughout the world i pay sincere tribute to your vision your ever your energy that is creating the lincoln center for the performing arts and so the city prepares for nineteen sixty four the lincoln center in the fair will be partners in jointly sponsored programs and leading museums like the metropolitan museum of art and the apoc in spring time the view from the tallest building like a picture postcard united nation and the library the art gallery jones beach in summer and ice skating in the fall the millions of visitors from all over the world new york will say welcome and on the flushing meadow beautiful than before a permanent feature of the park will be the unit the symbol of off scene and this is the theme of the new york world's fair that's the nation will unite in showing their skills invention