Glowing amber under floodlights against a steel-blue winter dusk, the Port of New York Authority's striking Heliport and Exhibit Building rises on massive concrete pilotis like a modernist flying saucer that never quite left the ground — this was the very first structure completed and opened to the public before the 1964–65 New York World's Fair even officially began. Marketed as the "Air Gateway to the Fair," it offered a "shuttle air bus" service linking the Flushing Meadows site to area airports, embodying the era's boundless optimism about air travel and urban mobility. Carl Schofield's color photography captures the building's dramatic cantilevered upper story and external spiral staircase with cinematic flair. Official World's Fair postcards like this one, distributed by Manhattan Post Card Co. and printed by Dexter Press of West Nyack, NY, are among the most systematically collected mid-century exposition ephemera, with the Unisphere® logo and "Peace through Understanding" theme making them instantly recognizable to collectors of Americana and World's Fair memorabilia.