Many New Yorkers have heard of the Unisphere, the visual focal point of the former World’s Fair grounds, today’s Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in Queens. But few bother to ask, what does it represent?

DON’T TAKE this rivalry lightly. The Empire State Building, which began its run as a nighttime landmark to honor the 1964 World’s Fair, is downplaying an apparent illumination threat from the ...

New York City has many iconic structures that define it to the world. Some, like the Brooklyn Bridge, the Chrysler and the Empire State Buildings, are state of the art examples of architectural and ...

As part of an elaborate display of protest and civil disobedience, a climate change activist last Friday climbed roughly 70 feet onto the Unisphere, the iconic steel globe in Flushing Meadows-Corona ...

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Let there be water at the Unisphere – again. Grand fountains that regularly shot H2O around Queens‘ unofficial symbol – until water flow leaked into a nearby museum in recent years – will be back on ...

The Unisphere, the once shining centerpiece of the World's Fair, has been so neglected that it's begun to sprout grass through its cracks. The Daily News pointed it out to the Parks Department, who ...