I love the Unisphere, even if I have to go to Queens. I would see it when I flew into LGA, and I absolutely had to go climb the thing. (As it turned out, I can't climb, it's beyond my skills)
It's at the 1965 World's Fair site (now Flushing Meadows park). You know the scene at the end of Men in Black where they're fighting the Edgar monster on the alien landing craft thing. That would be the park (though weirdly, the movie leaves out both the Unisphere and the theatre right next to the tower things...).
The Unisphere was dedicated to "Man's Achievements on a Shrinking Globe in an Expanding Universe." It gives me a warm fuzzy feeling. Science! Progress! World Peace! Wooott!!!
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