TODAY’S “ancient ad” is a bit less ancient that usual on FNY, but it is at least a good 40 years old if not 50. I had gotten off the M train at Flushing Avenue and Broadway en route to Humboldt Street, where I desired a walk north into Greenpoint, when I spotted the remnants of a painted sign on Graham Avenue just north of Flushing, in green and white script for Linda Bargain Stores. Below it is Spanish for “toys, clothes, nylon socks.” You could pretty much get anything you wanted at Linda’s, which appears in a 1980s tax photo. By the 2000s, Linda had vacated and the space is now home to a clothing store, Hyperactive. But Linda’s painted sign isn’t giving up the ghost anytime soon.
Graham Avenue, meanwhile, was named for 19th Century land speculators John and James Lorimer Graham (Lorimer Street is two avenues to the west).
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