NEXT time you are in midtown between 5th and 8th Avenues and 23rd and 40th Streets, be sure and look up at all the ancient brick buildings, built in stolid…

I’d say there are relatively few New Yorkers who haven’t picked up an TV set or an air conditioner at P.C. Richard, or at least knows a friend who has.…

I had been noticing out of date ads at the Little Neck LIRR station for some time…none had been replaced in over a year, as agencies had ceased buying ad…

I was bemused by an article in the NY Times by columnist Lindsay Crouse, about how her life was changed by being unable to run outdoors during the covid pandemic.…

I was digging around in my Facebook photo files and I came up with a cache of photos that were sent by US Naval academician David Silver back in 2012…

A relatively new “ghost sign” can be found at 6408 Fort Hamilton Parkway, where there is still a painted ad for Rocco’s Famous Calamari. The Italian eatery was founded by…

I was wandering around in that nebulous area of Brooklyn between the waterfront and Green-Wood Cemetery, between about 24th and 36th Streets. This area had never been identified as part…

Here’s a look at a Queens grocery store or delicatessen in July 1938. The shelves are chockablock with canned, packaged and bottled goods. You can see packs of Coca-Cola, for…

Here’s a placid scene at #605 West 42nd Street in 1940, just west of 11th Avenue in Hells Kitchen. Well into the 1980s, this was a somewhat sketchy part of…

Doing some late night noodling in Google Street View, I happened upon this ad, painted directly onto the building bricks on St. Johns Place just east of Troy Avenue for…

Forgotten Fan Bill Mangahas passed along this photo taken a few years ago by Jay Bendersky of a painted building ad on Avenue J just east of Coney Island Avenue.…

Here’s a look at what was a Babee-Tenda showroom at 84-14 Queens Boulevard, just west of Broadway, in Elmhurst in 1940. The company made a sort of high-tech high chair…