Fred Christ Trump

New York, NY

This 140-foot stainless-steel globe rose over Flushing Meadows as the theme symbol of the 1964–65 New York World's Fair, an exposition themed "Peace Through Understanding" that drew millions to Queens at the height of the Space Age. Donated and engineered by U.S. Steel, its open latticework of continents and orbiting rings captured a moment when Americans looked hopefully toward space exploration and a shrinking, more connected world. After the fair closed it remained in the park, and today it endures as one of the most recognizable landmarks of the New York City skyline's borough of Queens.

New York, NY

Alfred M. Butts, an out-of-work architect and artist, invented the word game Scrabble in 1931 while part of this Queens church congregation. His wife, Nina, and fellow parishioners helped create and perfect the game, and Butts himself designed the education building on which this marker stands.

New York, NY

In 1921, in the quiet green of Kissena Park, Queens residents raised a "Memorial Knoll" to their neighbors who had died in the Great War just a few years earlier. The United States had entered World War I in 1917, and by the Armistice of November 1918 tens of thousands of New Yorkers had shipped overseas, many never to return. Across the country in the early 1920s, towns and city neighborhoods answered that loss by dedicating parks, groves, and knolls—living memorials meant to be walked through rather than merely looked at.

New York, NY

Alfred Tredway White was a Brooklyn merchant and philanthropist of the Gilded Age whose name became synonymous with the idea that decent housing was a civic duty. In an era when the working poor of America's booming industrial cities were crowded into airless, unsanitary tenements, White financed model apartment blocks built around courtyards and open stairwells to bring in light and air, insisting they still earn a modest return so the model could be copied. A devoted supporter of parks, gardens, and public institutions, he lived by the creed carved here — a lover of nature and a helper of mankind.