FOR years, I’ve noticed that many liquor stores in the five boroughs have the same signage they must have had decades ago…whether they’re ceramic, painted signs or my favorite, NEON.…

In the mid-1760s, NYC had sufficiently grown that the Episcopalian parish of Trinity Church began to expand uptown, and built St. Paul’s Chapel in 1766. When a giant fire broke…

WHEN I lived in Bay Ridge, I would frequently bicycle down Ocean Parkway from Church Avenue to Coney Island. It boasts a world-class bike path and it’s flat as a…

DEEP in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, along a path between Dinkins Circle and the Unisphere, is NYC Parks’ equivalent of the Island of Misfit Toys from TV’s “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.”…

A weakness of the Queens street numbering system devised by Charles U. Powell of the Queens Topographic Bureau in the 1910s was that in order to keep east-west and north-south…

DEEP into the Forgotten New York archives we go, to September 2017, when I staggered out of Prospect Park onto the streets of Lefferts Gardens and I found this sign…

If you recall, last week Forgotten NY presented a photo of ancient Staten Island street signs I discovered in Tottenville at Jacob(s) Street and Bedell Avenue in 1999. I had…

THIS sign for an optician at #364 7th Avenue between 12th and 13th Streets in Park Slope is a true throwback. Not because of its age; it’s pretty old —…

LIKE the hands on a clock, or the sun and moon in the sky, New York is under constant movement not always apparent to the naked eye. In the nearly…

What we’re gonna do right here is go back, way back, back into time, as Sergey visits a movie set starring the hottest name in the business in December 2024,…

THE influence of Charles R. Ruegger can be found on 6th Avenue between West 20th and 21st Streets decades after his brief dominance. That’s what happens when you install quality…

AFTER concluding my Crescent Street walk in late September 2024 I decided to head east on 23rd Avenue toward the Astoria el to get the N train back to Queensboro…