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Article: New Stars In New York.(Hayden Planetarium)(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- Popular Mechanics
- Article date:
- June 1, 2000
- Author:
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* It was during a non-power lunch with some colleagues that I realized the universe I'd grown up with was coming to an end.
It was six years ago, and the rough plans for the Frederick Phineas and Sandra Priest Rose Center for Earth and Space, to be located in Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History, had just been released. My friends and I looked at the crude black-and-white drawings in The New York Times that revealed a large dome set in the center of a cube of glass towering above Central Park West at 81st Street. This monstrosity represented the future of the Hayden Planetarium, a classic piece of the city that had been built in 1935.
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