This painted ad in exquisitely serifed lettering appears high over West 30th Street near 10th Avenue, heading east, in view of the new High Line Park. The founder was Russian…

Here’s a view of the Long Island Rail Road tracks from the elevated Flushing Main Street station looking east in 2009. Note the pair of Caldor signs: the company had…

A pair of wonderfully colored handpainted building ads on Springfield Boulevard and 111th Road in a part of town I’m not in all that much, across the road from a…

This ad for a Woodside “Beauty Center” visible from the Manhattan-bound #7 train platform at 61st-Woodside gets just a bit more faded each year. I do remember, though, that the…

Gary Fonville found a palimpsest of painted-on-glass signs at Bushwick Avenue and Moffat Street, GROCERY and EX-LAX, THE CHOCOLATED LAXATIVE. Not sure which came first. I wonder  what gastrointestinal medication…

Gary Fonville made quite a find on West 145th at Frederick Douglass Boulevard (8th Avenue) as an ad for for the former Jack Sobel pawnshop (“loan office”) around the corner…

Somehow I have overlooked this pair of painted ads on the NW corner of Fresh Pond Road and Eliot Avenue. The ads are by the same signpainter and are flogging…

This mostly obliterated painted sign can be seen traveling south on the Grand Concourse from Kingsbridge Road. It appears that there are a variety of signs here, painted on top…

A quasar, which stands for “quasi-stellar” is a super-bright area in the center of a galaxy being swallowed by a black hole, emitting tremendous amounts of radioelectric energy. Some quasars…

Stenciled signs for the “chocolated laxative” appeared frequently on drugstore windows frequently in the early to mid-20th Century, and several more can be found concealed under newer awnings, or in…

A very faded building ad on Jamaica Avenue near 161st Street advertises the department store once billed as Jamaica’s largest. Simon, Louis and Moses Plaut opened their first department store…

A recent building teardown at 43rd Avenue and Hunter Street has revealed this decades-old wall ghost. The ST in the exchange stands for STillwell, STerling or STagg, I’m unsure which.…