Forgotten New York

DEATH OF A FADED AD

There was this grand old faded ad for a shoe shine place at the subway entrance/exit at 95th Street and 4th Avenue seen here. It could have gone all the way back to 1925, when the station opened. I last shot it on a ForgottenTour in Bay Ridge in 2005, but it survived several years after that.

This is what I found when I passed by today:

 

Sick transit, Gloria!

3/12/13

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