Editing Unisphere (section)

=== Climbs ===
Several people have climbed the Unisphere throughout its history. In 1976, George Willig and Jerry Hewitt scaled the structure for a short documentary made by [[New York University]] student Paul Hornstein, who had wanted "to prove that we can do a full-scale, high-quality movie production on our own".<ref>{{Cite news|last=Herbert|first=Robert|date=October 19, 1976|title=Climbing Their Way to Film Careers|pages=353|work=New York Daily News|via=newspapers.com|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/82216466/climbing-their-way-to-film-careers/|access-date=July 26, 2021|archive-date=July 26, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210726161008/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/82216466/climbing-their-way-to-film-careers/|url-status=live}}</ref> A member of the climate activist group [[Extinction Rebellion]] also climbed the Unisphere in September 2019 to hang a banner protesting the [[2019 Amazon rainforest wildfires]].<ref>{{cite news|last1=Kim|first1=Elizabeth|date=September 9, 2019|title=Man Climbs World's Fair Unisphere To Draw Attention To Climate Change|publisher=Gothamist|url=https://gothamist.com/news/man-climbs-worlds-fair-unisphere-draw-attention-climate-change|access-date=June 22, 2021|archive-date=September 10, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190910000520/https://gothamist.com/news/man-climbs-worlds-fair-unisphere-draw-attention-climate-change|url-status=live}}</ref> At least two climbers have died after slipping from the Unisphere: a 23-year-old who fell from the side of the structure in 1976,<ref>{{Cite news|date=June 6, 1976|title=Metropolitan Briefs|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url-access=subscription|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1976/06/06/archives/metropolitan-briefs-man-plunges-from-unisphere-school-bus-driver.html|access-date=July 26, 2021|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=July 26, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210726015226/https://www.nytimes.com/1976/06/06/archives/metropolitan-briefs-man-plunges-from-unisphere-school-bus-driver.html|url-status=live}}</ref> and a man who fell into the globe in 1990.<ref>{{cite news|id={{ProQuest|278232914}} |title=Man Dies in Unisphere Fall |date=June 4, 1990 |page=21|first=Peg|last=Tyre|work=Newsday}}</ref>