A recent building teardown at 2nd Avenue and East 72nd Street revealed this partial ad for Pearline Soap. Though Pearline is represented in a great number of color advertising cards…

HERE’S a look at the 168th Street elevated train platform in Jamaica sometime in the late 1960s or early 1970s. We are probably looking at a fan trip as there…

THREE of the four corners at the busy intersection of 6th Avenue and West 14th Street have seen building teardowns in recent years, with the latest one coming n the…

I worked in the Garment District at a number of companies for over a decade, at small type shops, trade schools I attended (after school I worked in the school’s…

HERE is a classic Amelia Opdyke “Oppy” Jones “Subway Sun” I found in one of the Transit Museum’s classic trainsets on the Brighton Line a few years ago encouraging people…

A nickname the late radio legend Don Imus gave himself many years ago because he was born with three testicles instead of the usual complement was “Tres Huevos.” I may…

GOING over some of my older images from a couple of decades ago, I recall how thrilled I was to find this one during my lunch hour at Macy’s during…

JUMPING into my H.G. Wells time machine once again, I set the controls for Riverdale, way up in the Bronx, and the year 1920, where, under the 16-year-old Broadway elevated…

BESIDES 100 West 33rd Street itself, which faces 6th Avenue between West 32nd and West 33rd Street, the only tangible remnant of the Gimbel Brothers Department Store, known as Gimbels,…

In the literary world, a palimpsest refers to “a manuscript or piece of writing material on which the original writing has been effaced to make room for later writing but of which traces remain.”…

THIS wall painting marking a cosmetics factory for Nutrine cosmetics was in decent shape when I first spotted it nearly a quarter century ago and it hasn’t faded much since.…

YOU know the name. It’s hardly Forgotten. But you may not know a few things about Heinz, which produces many more than 57 varieties of food. Today I’m continuing my…