During a recent walk over the New Kosciuszko Bridge connecting Greenpoint and Laurel Hill, Queens, I cast my gaze downward on the Brooklyn side to Gardner Avenue and Thomas Street…

Here’s a small bus route sign at Greenpoint and Gale Avenues in Blissville, at the entrance to Calvary Cemetery. Today, bus route maps are somewhat larger and are mounted on…

I found this sign on the Douglaston peninsula recently, at West Drive and Ardsley Road. It was hiding behind a hedge, but I have a feeling it’s been there for…

*I’m doing something a bit different this Sunday; instead of the usual longform page, I’m doing a shorter page because I was just hired part time at Marquis Who’s Who…

Back in 2012 I was shuffling down 7th Avenue in Park Slope and I spied this glass leaf lettering in a window of an art gallery at #57 7th Avenue…

In November 1964 the old man was lined up for one of the first buses to cross the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge from Brooklyn, and presumably I was with him as I…

I’ve always wanted a job in the MTA Sign Shop in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. That’s where every sign that you see in the subways is produced. I’m unclear whether street…

10th and Broadway in Williamsburg? You might think these signs would be found in the Union Square area, where East 10th and Broadway do intersect (at Grace Church, one of…

Now, that’s a mouthful. Back in the late 1990s and early 2000s, when I was canvassing neighborhoods for Forgotten New York, I “reconnected” with a painted ad for Dannenhoffer Opalescent…

Periodically I check on some of my favorite “forgotten” artifacts around town, just to see how they’re doing. Sometimes, I’m disappointed. There was a sign with red and blue plastic…

The Marvelettes once sang, “My baby must be a magician, ’cause he sure got the magic touch.” It’s possible this former Carroll Gardens hotspot at Hoyt and 3rd Streets was…

Though I live in Little Neck and my needs are seen to by Little Neck Drugs on Northern Boulevard, I thought I’d note Harpell Chemists on 150th Street and 14th…