“It’s really a shame,” said Perlman, who recently rediscovered a long-lost World’s Fair-era mural in a Massachusetts basement. “These mosaics were put here as a tribute decades after the ...

They’re trying to pick up the pieces. Five historical mosaics commemorating Queens’ World Fairs will be demolished in the next few months — despite preservationists’ impassioned pleas to ...

In an ideal world, Perlman would love to see the mural resurrected in a replica of the Rego Park Howard Johnson’s, which he believes should have been landmarked to save it from demolition.