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We’ve been celebrating the 50th and 75th anniversaries of the World’s Fairs all month, but today’s actually the opening day of the 1939 World’s Fair 75 years ago. The Parks Department posted some ...

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**The World of Tomorrow** captures remarkable silent footage from the 1939-40 New York World's Fair, showcasing a vibrant and diverse array of pavilions and attractions. Notable highlights include the ...

Covering 1,216 acres of the Flushing Meadows-Corona Park section of Queens — a former garbage dump — the New York World's Fair of 1939 presented a glorious vision of "The World of Tomorrow." In the ...

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A forgotten victim of the Second World War is the Belgian Friendship Building, the small European nation’s contribution to the 1939 New York World’s Fair. Unable to repatriate it after the fair’s ...

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