AS the years pass, more and more of the “faded ads” that I encountered in Forgotten NY’s early days 25 years ago are disappearing or ravaged by the elements. And…
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I am going to make a confession. I have been listening to recorded music for a long time, from the time I was a toddler watching the wax spin on…
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I was meandering in Rockaway Park in December 2016 and, when outside Boardwalk Bagel and Delicatessen, found what appeared to be a pair of vintage ads. One showed a Coke…
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HERE’S an ancient painted ad that has been there for many years and went unnoticed by me until was walking east on West 33rd Street and noticed it via an…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…