For every ticket sold to the team's game against the San Francisco Giants, the New York Mets will donate $5 to rebuild the New York State Pavilion, Philip Johnson's work for the 1964 World's Fair. According to Citylab, the team's move to help preserve one of the fair's last vestiges makes sense because the two are both, uh, spurned symbols of old New York. "Over the next 50 years, both the Mets and the New York State Pavilion returned from glory to dump." [Citylab; previously]
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