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[VIDEO] The Verge Tours the 11,000 Piece Toy Collection of the New-York Historical Society Museum & Library

2023-07-20T12:00:00-04:00

A few years ago, reporters from The Verge took a tour of the New York Historical Society's 11,000 toys, part of The Jerni Collection. According to the museum, the vintage toys (1840-1960) have major historical significance.

If you want to academically understand this collection, yes they're toys, but if you're really looking at toys, you're looking at, toys are made by adults for children, so therefore they reflect adult values of the time they were made.

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[WATCH] The Rise and Fall of Toys "R" Us Flagship Times Square Store

2021-01-21T12:00:00-05:00

In this one-off episode, Kevin dives into the flagship location of the iconic toy retailer Toys "R" Us in the heart of Times Square in New York City.

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Check Out These Cleverly Minimal Lego Depictions of New York City

2020-06-30T14:00:00-04:00

Christoph Niemann creates whimsical visual columns for the Abstract Sunday section in New York Times Magazine. During a recent trip abroad Niemann found himself missing his New York City home so, like anybody surrounded in their kid's Lego bricks would, he created some cleverly minimal plastic brick sculptures of life back home.

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[WATCH] Meet Jonathan Zelenak, New Yorker and Superfan of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

2019-12-11T12:00:00-05:00

Our friends at Bobo Touch recently profiled a quirky New Yorker named Jonathan Zelenak who has been a super fan of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ever since he was a boy and transformed his childhood room in his parent's house to be a mega-shrine to the beloved half-shell pizza eaters. Check it out!

A Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles super fan has transformed a small New Jersey bedroom into a half shell haven, a nostalgic shrine dedicated to rare collectibles and uncommon oddities. It's a museum of memories, a collection of cowabunga.

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[VIDEO] Here's What You Missed from the 2019 Toy Fair New York

2019-02-19T15:30:00-05:00

CBSN New York's John Dias takes look at the largest playthings trade show in the western hemisphere, Toy Fair New York, at the Javits Center in Feb. 18, 2019.

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[VIDEO] Peek Inside FAO Schwarz's New Rockefeller Center Toy Store

2018-12-07T17:00:00-05:00

Three years after closing down its famous 5th Avenue location near Central Park, toy retailer FAO Schwarz has returned to New York City, opening up a new flagship location in Rockefeller Center. Peek inside in this walkthrough tour from local vlogger actionkid105.

A walking tour of the famous FAO Schwarz Rockefeller Center Toy Store in NYC during the Holidays 2018.

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Iconic Toy Store FAO Schwarz Returns to New York City

2018-11-17T11:00:00-05:00

Three years after closing down its famous 5th Avenue location near Central Park, toy retailer FAO Schwarz has returned to New York City, opening up a new flagship location in Rockefeller Center. Learn more about the grand opening in this short report from CBS New York.

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[WATCH] Lego Live NYC! Takes Over Pier 36 This Weekend Only

2018-02-17T13:30:00-05:00

This weekend only, you don't want to miss the first ever Lego Live NYC! event at Pier 36 on the Lower East Side. With over 4.66 million lego bricks there, you can experience hours and hours of building, creating, learning, and more. There is even a "lego pit" where you can wade knee-deep in thousands of bricks. Check it out in this video from our friends at Time Out New York.

Filled with various eye-popping play zones, LEGO LIVE NYC will offer a main stage where families can meet LEGO master builders and learn from super cool live demos, enjoy opportunities to help with communal projects like building iconic NYC skyscrapers, partake in a LEGO Minecraft-inspired building zone and even learn to code with LEGO Boost and heritage LEGO MINDSTORMS toolkits to create a robot.

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Check Out The Unique Views From This Lego Train Track Loop on Roosevelt Island

2017-12-28T13:30:00-05:00

Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park offers some of the best views in the City. Sandwiched between Manhattan and Queens on Roosevelt Island, one side offers the stunning Midtown Manhattan skyline, with the other offering the developing Long Island City skyline. In this unique video from RPN National Railways, see the views while riding on a Lego Train Loop setup in the park.

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Dates Announced For 15th Annual Holiday Train Show in Grand Central Terminal

2016-11-03T12:06:19-04:00

Now in its 15th year, the annual Holiday Train Show at the New York Transit Museum Grand Central Gallery Annex will be on display from November 14th, 2016 through February 26th, 2017.

Come celebrate the holiday season with us! This year’s Holiday Train Show display will feature a 34-foot-long “O gauge” model train layout with Lionel’s model Metro-North, New York Central, and vintage subway trains running on eight separate loops of track, against a backdrop featuring graphics celebrating the Museum’s 40th anniversary by artist Julia Rothman. Vintage “O gauge” and “N gauge” model trains and a selection of Transit Museum Collection ½” scale trolley models made by Dr. George Rahilly will also be on view.

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