Art historians will give a free talk on the Belgian Friendship Building's history at the Library of Virginia, according to officials.

1890: “Great is Chicago. It gets the World’s Fair.” The city was awarded the event by the U.S. House of Representatives on ...

The City on Record" uses government records that reveal 400 years of NYC history, from documents showing land transfers in ...

Two centuries ago, New York City was a tangled collection of streets on the narrowing southern end of Manhattan island. Expansion pointed only one way, and in 1807 a three-person team proposed it be ...

Hollaender and Schoenberg were among the German, Austrian, and Czech composers featured on a program titled “Fugitives,” ...

NEW YORK (AP) — CC Sabathia's No. 52 will be retired on Sept. 26 by the New York Yankees, who will dedicate a plaque in honor of the Hall of Famer at Monument Park before that day's game against the ...

Built for the 1939 World’s Fair, a temporary subway spur once carried millions of visitors to Flushing Meadows. Constructed rapidly over former wetlands, the line connected directly to the fairgrounds ...

On the second-to-last day of New York Fashion Week and on the eve of President’s Day, Rachel Scott, the designer behind the independent label Diotima, hosted an extraordinary and emotionally charged ...

Jesse Zanger is the managing editor of CBSNewYork.com. Jesse has previously worked for the Fox News Channel and Spectrum News NY1. He covers regional news around the Tri-State Area, with a particular ...

EL SEGUNDO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mattel, Inc. (NASDAQ: MAT), a leading global play and family entertainment company and owner of one of the most iconic brand portfolios in the world, announced ...

His name was Leonardo Torres Quevedo, a Spanish engineer born in Santa Cruz, Spain, in 1852. Smart? In 1914, he developed a ...

The world’s number one selling toy* builds on eight consecutive years of consecutive growth by turning speed, stunts and storytelling into next-level play Mattel, Inc. (NASDAQ: MAT), a leading global ...