Theodora is one of Brooklyn's hottest new restaurants, known for its dry-aged and open-fire-cooked fish. Owner and executive chef Tomer Blechman values the caramelization and umami flavors that only smoke can bring, which you can taste in its Moroccan fish stew, whole butterflied trout, and bone-in branzino. Beyond the grilled dishes, the restaurant also offers a popular crudo selection, featuring red snapper ceviche and Ora King Salmon, as well as bread from its sister bakery, Thea, which supplies sourdough and seeded laffa.

Today we're taking you to Brooklyn to visit the duplex NYC home of designer Tracie Moore and her boyfriend Jordan Payne. […] Having documented her entire makeover journey on her blog More Than An Apartment, Tracie shares with us the beautiful story of how she and Jordan moved to New York and immediately went into renovating this first-floor duplex of a brownstone. Completely changing the aesthetics of the apartment to incorporate color, creativity and art, Tracie has turned this once white-walled space into a cozy home for the two. Enjoy!

I’m Dave from View Master Travels, and this time I set out to explore what’s left of the 1939 and 1964 New York World’s Fairs — two massive events that shaped not just the city but also the View-Master reels I collect. Armed with my vintage viewer, I walked the grounds of Flushing Meadows in Queens, comparing what’s there now to the original images. These two fairs were held 25 years apart but are deeply connected — and surprisingly, a lot of their remains are still scattered around if you know where to look.

The site itself has a crazy backstory — it used to be a massive ash dump that even showed up in The Great Gatsby. The 1939 fair was meant to pull New York out of the Great Depression with its “World of Tomorrow” theme, but World War II broke out months later and the whole thing ended in financial disappointment. Fast forward to 1964: Robert Moses, New York’s master planner, revived the idea with a new fair themed “Peace Through Understanding.” It was even bigger and bolder, but still lost money — and again, the dream of turning the area into a world-class park kind of stalled.

Even so, some pieces survived. I visited the Unisphere (still standing tall), the old New York Pavilion with its towers and crumbling “Tent of Tomorrow,” and the Queens Museum, which still houses a giant model of New York City from the ’64 fair. We also hunted down old fountains, statue locations, street markers, and even benches and water fountains that date back to the fairs. It felt like walking through a forgotten world — part ghost town, part open-air museum.

One of the most haunting parts was standing over the original 1939 time capsule, buried by Westinghouse and intended to stay sealed for 5,000 years. It’s still there, under the grass, waiting to be discovered by people in the year 6939. That moment really hit me — a reminder that the fair was more than just a temporary spectacle. It was a message to the future, packed with hope and optimism. That’s what keeps me doing this: digging up the pieces of forgotten dreams and seeing what still echoes in the world today.

00:30 - The two world’s fairs
01:08 - History of the fairs
05:07 - The Unisphere
06:57 - Trylon and Perisphere
08:11 - New York City Pavilion
09:58 - New York State Towers
11:51 - Avenue of the Flags
12:07 - Astral Fountain and the Vatican
12:46 - Court of States
13:21 - Dupont
13:56 - British Pavilion
15:51 - Fountain of the Fairs and GE
17:02 - Avenue of Progress, Benches, Fountains
17:40 - Column of Jerash
18:05 - Netherlands
18:22 - Heliport
19:04 - Hollywood
19:34 - Pan American Building
19:52 - Kodak
20:09 - Monorail
20:49 - Speed
21:08 - Time and the Fates of Man
21:27 - Polish Pavilion
22:38 - US Pavilion
23:34 - Science Center Rockets
24:26 - The Time Capsule
25:30 - Conclusion