Joseph Tirella wrote about the borough of Queens for the New York Times' much-missed City section and penned pieces for the paper's Metro and Business sections. A former senior editor at Fortune Small Business, his work has also appeared in Rolling Stone, Esquire, the New York Post, and MSN.com.
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Motivated by the idea of turning Flushing Meadows, literally a land of refuse, into his greatest public park, Robert Moses—New York's 'master builder'—brought the World's Fair to the Big Apple for 1964 and '65. Though considered a financial failure, t... SEE MORE