Located just a few miles north of the Pennsylvania border is one of the most impressive museums in the region: the Corning Museum of Glass. Founded in 1951 to celebrate the Corning Glass Works' (now ...

The story of the Corning glass company actually begins in Brooklyn, steps away from Brooklyn Bridge Park at the site what is now Adam Yauch Park. There, the Brooklyn Flint Glass Company had its start ...

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The Corning community is mourning the loss of a local icon. Amory Houghton Jr., who served as chairman of Corning Glass Works (before the company changed its name to Corning Inc.) for nearly 20 years, ...

Corning Inc. and the Twin Tiers region are approaching a significant milestone in their history. Next year will mark the 150th anniversary of the glass company’s move from Brooklyn to Corning in 1868.

Summoned five years ago to the office of William C. Decker, then president ofCorning Glass Works, Research Director William H. Armistead listened wide-eyedto a short but characteristically pithy ...

CORNING, N.Y. — Glass loves light. That’s the design inspiration behind the stunning, $64 million wing that opened in March at the Corning Museum of Glass in New York’s scenic Finger Lakes region.