These new street signs appear in Kensington, a tony subdivision of the town (or village; I’m too lazy to determine) of Great Neck, which is east of the undefined border of Queens…

A bit short on time today, so I thought I would do a short item on the unique Flushing Meadows-Corona Park signage, which uses different fonts than other fonts used…

By GARY FONVILLE Forgotten NY correspondent I was in Lower Manhattan recently headed to a national stationery store to purchase computer ink. Don’t get me started on how computer printer…

I recently took a lengthy walk recently from Oakwood Heights down to Oakwood Beach in Staten Island, continuing on a fairly straight course back through Midland and South Beaches before…

One of my initial features in Forgotten New York nearly 20 years ago concerned the gigantic neon signs built to attract notice from motorists on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway and the…

In about 1990, a lamppost design that remains unique in NYC was installed along West 14th Street between University Place and 9th Avenue. The design is among the simplest found…

On the West Broadway side of the handsome brick building at the NW corner of West Broadway and Warren Street (specifically, 82 West Broadway) is a reminder of one of West…

I haven’t been able to get outside NYC much… unemployment gives me the time, but not the money. However, I have ambitions of expanding Forgotten New York to include the…

The J.M. Horton Ice Cream Company used to be a big deal. If you look at postcards showing NYC neighborhood scenes in the early 20th Century, a Horton’s ice cream…

Louis Mattia ran a lamp repair shop on 2nd Avenue off East 52nd Street from 1960 to 1995. His impressive aqua green sidewalk sign, with gold serif lettering and PL(aza)…

Forgotten Fan Rolando Pujol provided this shot of a small shack on East 180th Street just east of Crotona Avenue and the ancient neon Crotona TV sign. The neon has…

I enjoy every Forgotten NY page I write but I think I’m in for some extra enjoyment this week. I stumbled on a folder full of classic signs, part of…