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LG&E and KU crews are building a new substation to add to the electricity running down US 42.

Demand for the best office buildings in the Big Apple has not only recovered — it’s causing a spillover effect.

The Starrett-Lehigh Building, a 1931-vintage leviathan-size monument to the city’s manufacturing and shipping age, will be the new headquarters for New York Fashion Week, which begins Friday. 

New shows will begin popping up around the county in early February and March, giving museumgoers ample opportunities to see something new and colorful as they wait for a multitude

National Lampoon cartoonist Ed Subitzky talks to Mark Newgarden and Owen Kline about his new book, his career, and time with David Letterman.

The tower also known as the Helmsley Building, which enjoyed a $190 million infrastructure upgrade, is about 80% leased and more leases are in the pipeline.

The mammoth streamlined structure between Eleventh and Twelfth avenues and between West 26th and West 27th streets is more than seventy percent leased.

David Platzker on the art of Ed Ruscha

THE DISTANCE from the Knox-Less service station in Oklahoma City to Bob’s Seaside Service, not so far from the Santa Monica Pier at the terminus of Route 66—both pictured in Ed Ruscha’s 1963 artist’s book, Twentysix Gasoline Stations—was about 1,400 miles. It’s a drive Ruscha has taken many times since he traveled it with Mason Williams in Ruscha’s lowered 1950 four-door Ford, with throaty Smitty Glasspack dual muffler, following their graduation from Oklahoma City’s Classen High...

Leo Kittle served in the Mediterranean Sea area during WWII.