FOR years I was confounded by this sign, rendered in the Benguiat type font, at Junction Boulevard and 41st Avenue, south of the Flushing elevated over Roosevelt Avenue. It is…

THOUGH “King of the Sausage” Bari has gone, in southern Brooklyn there are still a number of “pork stores,” a combination of Italian-themed grocery and butcher. If I lived near…

CAN it really be almost nine years since I last explored the underground passageway beneath Rockefeller Center that rins beneath 6th Avenue from west 47th to 53rd Streets and then…

I have always been wary about bees and their relatives, the hornets. They have stingers on their butts and aren’t afraid to use them, the hornets especially. Worker bees that…

NEWTOWN Historical Society founder and president, and Forgotten NY correspondent Christina Wilkinson recently tipped me about some gorgeous old signage that had recently been revealed at #705 Manhattan Avenue near…

THE name “Isham ” is closely associated with Inwood, the northernmost neighborhood on Manhattan Island (though not the most northerly; that prize goes to Marble Hill, which is actually on…

I knew I had seen this sidewalk sign for Corner Deli before, as I was pacing around the Upper East Side at #1400 2nd Avenue at East 73rd Street. It…

I got this shot of the magnificent neon sidewalk sign for the One Six Four Bar and Grill, NE corner of Hillside Avenue and 164th Street in Jamaica, in 1998…

KEEP looking up! At building rooflines, that is. But be careful that the coast is clear, many New Yorkers have no tolerance for skyward gawkers, especially if they’re race walking…

BEING a type guy, I noticed this sign for New York Spa and Sauna as I was scuttling north on 149th Street at Northern Boulevard recently. I noticed it was…

I am in a slight rush this AM and otherwise got nuthin’, so here’s a fine plastic-lettered sign at #765 Grand Street at Humboldt for what was once Grand Cleaners.…

THERE is a somewhat forlorn sign on a rusty lamppost on Frankfort Street half a block north of Gold Street beneath a ramp connecting East River Drive and the Brooklyn…