Safety lights back on at Pavilion

The Parks and Recreation Department recently installed new aviation lights on top of the 226-foot New York State Pavilion after a park advocacy group reported that the lights had been out for up to three months.
David Oats, President of the Flushing Meadows-Corona Park World's Fair Association, notified the Parks Department during the week of October 13 about the outage, and Parks and Recreation immediately notified the Federal Aviation Association (FAA), according to Parks and Recreation spokesperson Abby Lootens.
After Parks notified the FAA, it secured a contract with Vertical Access, a company that specializes in buildings and monuments with hard-to-reach areas, who installed a temporary rope system in order to make it easier to get to the top of the Pavilion.
Lootens said that reaching the top of the structure is the difficult and expensive part, and now that the rope system has been installed, whenever the light bulb goes out, it will be easier to change.
Parks and Recreation repaired the light bulb less than a year ago in November of 2005, using a crane that was working on the Queens Museum of Art to repair the light bulb, so the officials were surprised it had burnt out again so quickly.
&#8220We are definitely aware of it now and will definitely make sure it is lighted,” Lootens said.