Imagine hopping in your car, traveling over the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge and driving to Flushing Meadows in Queens — for a visit to Walt Disney World?
For a brief time in the mid-1960s, the powers that be in the Walt Disney Company actually did consider bringing the "East Coast Disneyland" to Queens, specifically on the site of the 1964-1965 New York World’s Fair in Flushing Meadows.
According to Disney legend and former Imagineering head Marty Sklar, weather was the main reason why Walt Disney World is in Florida and not New York.
"When Walt was deciding where to build the next project after Disneyland, he had Buzz Price do a study on whether it should be New York or Florida and Buzz wrote a very long report — multiple pages — saying ‘Stay away from New York and go to Florida.’ Weather was a big reason for that. [...]
