FLETCHER’S Castoria ads have been a staple in the Forgotten New York ancient painted ads category from the very beginning, back in 1999. They can be seen frequently in photographs…
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I have pointed out this particular painted ad for the long-lost Automat before, but it’s been awhile. While walking down 7th Avenue all these years ago, I happened to look up…
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IT’S been awhile, maybe a couple of years, since I’ve been in Mott Haven. I’ll admit, since the pandemic began and crime increased in 2020, discretion has been the better…
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THIS one stumped me for quite a long time. This painted ad on the north side of Fulton, across from Macy’s, stumped me for years, but Of New York has scooped me…
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TRIBECA, at one time, was New York’s primary center for foodstuffs imports such as butter, cheese and eggs…and tea, which was unloaded from ships docked in the Hudson River along…
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HOW many painted ads on buildings do you see around town for hospitals? There was one painted a long time ago at #710 Hunts Point Avenue at Spofford Avenue in…
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By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten New York correspondent WE don’t usually associate southeastern Queens with mural ads as this is largely a corner of the borough covered by single-family tract houses. But…
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FORGOTTEN NY fan Kyle Supley found this quite faded ad for Titanic the Musical in a Park Fast lot at #305 West 44th, west of 8th Avenue. Of course I…
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ATLANTIC AVENUE is one of the lengthiest streets in New York City, divided about equally between Brooklyn and Queens. It runs from the waterfront in Brooklyn Heights all the way…
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PROFESSIONAL football had its AFL from 1961-1970, when the New York Jets won their only Super Bowl when they weren’t even part of the senior-circuit National Football League. But Brooklyn…
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FORGOTTEN Fan Michael Towers was out for a stroll in the Downtown Brooklyn-Brooklyn Heights area when he encountered a recent teardown at the corner of Fulton Street Mall and Red…
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JAMAICA is one of Queens’ three oldest neighborhoods, along with Newtown and Flushing, and it’s no surprise that those three neighborhoods have the lion’s share of colonial-era buildings and locations.…