Editing 1964 New York World's Fair (section)

==== Retrospective ====
In 1967, ''New York Times'' reporter [[Robert Alden]] wrote the 1964 fair benefited from "participation of private industry on a massive scale" and that more countries were participating in Expo 67.<ref name="nyt-1967-05-01">{{Cite news |last=Alden |first=Robert |date=May 1, 1967 |title=The World on Display; Montreal Fair Outshines New York's In Some Respects, But Not in All |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1967/05/01/archives/the-world-on-display-montreal-fair-outshines-new-yorks-in-some.html |access-date=June 6, 2024 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> Another ''Times'' writer said in 1989: "The 1964 fair was not as self-conscious a portrayal of the future so much as a display of contemporary American achievements".<ref name="nyt-1989-03-02">{{Cite news |last=Brown |first=Patricia Leigh |date=March 2, 1989 |title=Fifty Years After the Fair, Where Is Tomorrow? |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/03/02/garden/fifty-years-after-the-fair-where-is-tomorrow.html |access-date=June 7, 2024 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> The same year, a ''Newsday'' reporter wrote the 1964 fair had occurred at a time when audiences were no longer awed by cultural and technological innovations.<ref name="p278141630" /> Robert A. M. Stern wrote in 1995 the 1964 fair had been so attractive in part because "it was out of place amid the realities of life in the nuclear age".<ref name="Stern (1995) p. 1055" />

[[David W. Dunlap]] wrote in 2001 the 1964 fair was still ingrained in the public imagination, even though it had been "a tailfin-tacky celebration of jet-age technological hubris" and an "unhappy final chapter" to Moses's career as New York City's main urban planner.<ref name="nyt-2001-08-26">{{Cite news |last=Dunlap |first=David W. |date=August 26, 2001 |title=A Queens Park's Past Shapes Its Future |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/26/realestate/a-queens-park-s-past-shapes-its-future.html |access-date=June 7, 2024 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> According to the author Lawrence R. Samuel, the fair's motto "peace through understanding" was overshadowed by the fair's focus on profits,<ref name="Samuel p. 11" /> and a ''Bloomberg'' reporter wrote in 2013 the fair had been dominated by corporate exhibitors.<ref name="Byrnes 2013 o626">{{cite web |last=Byrnes |first=Mark |date=October 17, 2013 |title=New York's 1964 World's Fair Was Actually Something of a Failure |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-10-17/new-york-s-1964-world-s-fair-was-actually-something-of-a-failure |access-date=May 23, 2024 |website=Bloomberg.com}}</ref> In the same year, Joseph Tirella wrote although "peace through understanding continues to elude us", the United States had become more ethnically diverse due to the [[Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965]], which was enacted just before the fair ended.<ref name="Tirella p. 329">{{harvnb|Tirella|2013|ps=.|page=329}}</ref>

According to ''[[New York Daily News]]'' in 2012, the remaining structures from the fair "have provided [Flushing Meadows–Corona Park] with some of its most striking structures".<ref name="p1462680741">{{cite news |last=Colangelo |first=Lisa L. |date=June 14, 2012 |title=Park Administrator Has Community Touch |work=New York Daily News |page=7 |issn=2692-1251 |id={{ProQuest|1462680741}}}}</ref> For the fair's 50th anniversary, ''[[Smithsonian (magazine)|Smithsonian]]'' magazine wrote the fair's "limitless faith in material and social progress" had been counteracted by the social upheaval in the U.S. that took place during the mid-1960s.<ref name="Abel 2014 v185">{{cite web |last=Abel |first=Allen |date=August 20, 2014 |title=The Great Big, Beautiful Tomorrow |url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/air-space-magazine/great-big-beautiful-tomorrow-180952395/ |access-date=May 27, 2024 |website=Smithsonian Magazine}}</ref> In 2018, ''The New York Times'' wrote the fair was a showcase for futuristic technology and a place where "foreigners could broadcast their best wares and fairgoers could catch a glimpse into their far-off cultures".<ref name="nyt-2018-04-24" />