A hunt for remnants is on the top of our favorite activities at Untapped New York. Many of these hunts
FDR at the opening day speech of the World’s Fair on this date in 1939. Photo from NYPL Digital Collections.
Kensico Cemetery in Valhalla, New York is one of those sprawling, rural cemeteries with winding roads, bucolic hills, lakes, and
Before the New York State Pavilion and Unisphere became symbols of the World's Fair in Flushing, Queens, the Trylon and Perisphere towered over the 1939 World's Fair. Learn 10 facts about these two missing icons!
While much of Flushing Meadows Park was rebuilt for the 1964 World's Fair, the remnants of the 1939 World's Fair are significant if you know where to look.
The 1938 New York World's Fair Westinghouse Time Capsule was buried in Flushing Meadow's Park, September 23, 1939, to be opened in 5000 years in the year 6939.
Many conflicting emotions were swirling about the air of New York City in 1939. The year started on a contentious
There is a line of the IND (Independent) NYC subway that no longer exists, created specifically for the 1939 World's Fair in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park.
Photographer and teacher Walter Plotnik has been melding images of the 1939 World's Fair with 1930s circus performers, using a hybrid of wet photography and digital processes.
Learn about the biggest piece of cheese, traffic caused by dinos, and more fun facts about the 1964 World's Fair, open 60 years ago today!