1998

Coney Island, once America’s summer playground, has become just a shadow of its former self, despite grand plans for a new subway terminal here, or a new minor league ballpark…

The trolleys of yore may be gone…but in streets that haven’t been repaved for awhile, ancient trolley tracks point their snouts above the tar and concrete to get a breath…

Located under City Hall Park is the world’s most beautiful former subway station. It is located at the south edge of the loop that turns Lexington Avenue IRT locals (#6) around…

  One of the great joys of the NYC subway system is that so much of its rich heritage is still on display for all to see. The preservation of its ancient terra-cotta…

At the top of a grand old building at Broadway and Washington Place in Greenwich Village is a sign that says “Treffurth’s.” Treffurth’s was a noted restaurant on Broadway at the turn…

  Bohacks was a chain of supermarkets in the five boroughs that closed in the early seventies. This smokestack is on the corner of Flushing and Metropolitan Avenues in Ridgewood, Queens.…

Bull Durham tobacco advertised on thousands of wall murals all over the country in the early part of the Twentieth Century by the Duke family, who contributed to Trinity College which…

Here we present some old designs that don’t easily fit the above categories, including the remains of the last gaslight-era lamp left standing.     LEFT: This unprepossessing little pole,…

The Long Island Rail Road has recently abandoned a number of stations In Queens and Nassau. Many of these stations are along the Montauk Branch between Jamaica and Long Island City.…

  On this page we’ll show you a couple of ancient signs that pointed you to the Hudson & Manhattan Railroad, as well as a few ancient oddities that can’t be…

The Bronx is usually thought to be the most urban of New York’s five boroughs. However, several areas in NYC’s only mainland borough belie that notion… Title card: This view…

In New York City, between the golden age of cast-iron lampposts, approximately 1895 and 1950, and prior to the brave new world of green-white fluorescent bulbs (which held sway between…