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7/14. Roving FNY correspondent Gary Fonville has come up with yet another big catch of faded advertisements throughout the five boroughs.

Who would have thought that Mike Tyson would be featured on a faded sign in FNY? This sign was painted when Tyson was the heavyweight champion during the late 1980s. Lexington and Stuyvesant Avenues, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.

(This was specifically painted to be featured in Spike Lee's 1989 feature film set in a Bedford-Stuyvesant pizzeria and its immediate neighborhood, Do The Right Thing.)

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Forgotten NY tours about 6-8 times a year; tours are announced a couple of weeks ahead of time on this FNY home page. Keep checking for times and dates!
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7/24. Glass-walled Soho alley, Renwick St.
7/21. Two traincars in Brooklyn and Queens
6/18. Roslyn, NY's landmark
6/9. Phorgotten Phlags in Philadelphia

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7/21. Your webmaster is never gonna get rich writing about lampposts, taking pictures of lampposts, or leading lamppost tours! This was the most sparsely attended ForgottenTour since Tour #4 in St. George, Staten Island, November 1999 -- 3 people were on that one, including your tourguide! Quality not quantity! What we set out to do was encounter every ancient lamppost -- by which I mean posts erected between about 1910 to 1925 -- in lower Manhattan and the financial district...

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Maspethians Helen Laurenti, Paul Ditta and FNY Correspondent Christina Wilkinson display a rendering of a plan to restore Maspeth's 160-year-old church. AMNY photo

The latest in the fight to save Maspeth's 160-year old church

THE GOOD, THE BAD and THE UGLY: the battle so far, by Christina

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