I keep meaning to explore Newark, NJ more frequently since I have made only a few forays into NYC’s westerly neighbor; I have visited Jersey City, Hoboken and even Hackensack…

Here’s a 1940 photograph of Grand Street looking east from West Broadway in SoHo. Naturally the first thing I noticed was the unusually curved lamppost on the corner. Why would…

The last time I spent an afternoon in Times Square, it was the coldest day of the winter in February 2016. The temperature had dropped to one below in the morning,…

Here’s a painted ad I hadn’t noticed before on Merrick Boulevard between the Long Island Rail Road overpass and Douglas Avenue for what was apparently the Jamaica Soda Fountain Fixture…

This is one of a pair of painted ads that appear on a brick building off Vernon Boulevard between 45th Road and 46th Avenue; this is the one on 46th.…

If you are looking out the window of a southbound J train on Broadway in Brooklyn, a number of ancient ads from the early 20th Century or even the late…

In late 2004 or early 2005 I was on South 8th Street because I had been tipped off about something interesting, which I’ll get to shortly. While there, I saw a…

Idling in Ridgewood the other day, I spotted this truly ancient painted ad on Seneca Avenue between Stanhope and Himrod. Other bits of the ad are visible but have mostly…

I was looking through some photos in my IPhoto collection (I rarely discard any photos from Forgotten NY missions) from the summer of 2011, one of the relatively few times…

From Paul Lukas of Uni Watch comes this extraordinary find: The demolition of some buildings on the south side of Flatbush Avenue between 5th Avenue and Pacific Street reveals this…

I may be a little unobservant, but I seem to be seeing fewer and fewer pawnshops around New York City these days. I’m sure there are still some around, but most of…

ForgottenFan Ben Hagen passed along photos of a pair of decades-old ads that have been in view on West Kingsbridge Road west of University Avenue that have apparently been in…