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Governors Ball

New York, NY · Music

When

June 4–6, 2027

Where

Flushing Meadows Corona Park · New York · NY

Cost

Not confirmed

Status

Approximate: based on past editions, not announced yet

New York City's flagship summer music festival, held in Flushing Meadows Corona Park since 2011. It draws a broad pop and hip hop lineup across three days. The 2027 dates above are approximate, based on the festival's usual early June slot.

The history within reach

• Governors Ballsame spot

  New York City's flagship summer music festival, held in Flushing Meadows Corona Park since 2011.

• The World's Fair time capsules, sealed until the year 69390.1 mi

  Westinghouse lowered an 800 pound copper alloy tube fifty feet into the fairground at noon on the 1938 equinox, packed with seeds in sealed vials, a Kewpie doll, a dollar bill, Camel cigarettes and reels of microfilm, to be dug up in five thousand years.

• Men in Black0.2 mi

  The two steel observation towers of the 1964 World's Fair turn out to be disguised flying saucers that lift off in the finale, and the giant Unisphere globe beside them takes a bug's foot.

• The United Nations votes to partition Palestine0.2 mi

  The General Assembly sat in the 1939 World's Fair's New York City Building from 1946 until the Manhattan headquarters was ready.

• The World's Fairs at Flushing Meadows0.2 mi

  Built on the ash dump Fitzgerald called the valley of ashes.