Photo Op At The 1939-1940 New York World’s Fair Site

BY LAURA ROSEN | April 12, 2006

In early 1939, during the construction of the 1939-1940 New York World’s Fair, Robert Moses, who was then both Triborough Bridge Authority Chairman and City Parks Commissioner, posed for a publicity photograph with Grover Whalen, then President of the 1939 New York World’s Fair Corporation and Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia. The three men held a blueprint as a prop, but it... READ MORE >