“You know, it seems to me, it’s true that the park has always been a kind of dumping ground for anything that couldn’t find a home anywhere else,” he said. “But on the other hand, it is that kind of place. And because it’s never had a very clearly defined landscape and because there’s so much still left over from the World’s Fair, it’s almost appropriate that it should receive these kinds of uses.”

Flushing Meadows park planners find a stadium idea not ‘necessarily’ terrible

“You know, it seems to me, it’s true that the park has always been a kind of dumping ground for anything that couldn’t find a home anywhere else,” he said. “But on the other hand, it is that kind of place. And because it’s never had a very clearly defined landscape and because there’s so much still left over from the World’s Fair, it’s almost appropriate that it should receive these kinds of uses.”

Flushing Meadows park planners find a stadium idea not ‘necessarily’ terrible