I have always been wary about bees and their relatives, the hornets. They have stingers on their butts and aren’t afraid to use them, the hornets especially. Worker bees that…

NEWTOWN Historical Society founder and president, and Forgotten NY correspondent Christina Wilkinson recently tipped me about some gorgeous old signage that had recently been revealed at #705 Manhattan Avenue near…

THE name “Isham ” is closely associated with Inwood, the northernmost neighborhood on Manhattan Island (though not the most northerly; that prize goes to Marble Hill, which is actually on…

I knew I had seen this sidewalk sign for Corner Deli before, as I was pacing around the Upper East Side at #1400 2nd Avenue at East 73rd Street. It…

I got this shot of the magnificent neon sidewalk sign for the One Six Four Bar and Grill, NE corner of Hillside Avenue and 164th Street in Jamaica, in 1998…

KEEP looking up! At building rooflines, that is. But be careful that the coast is clear, many New Yorkers have no tolerance for skyward gawkers, especially if they’re race walking…

BEING a type guy, I noticed this sign for New York Spa and Sauna as I was scuttling north on 149th Street at Northern Boulevard recently. I noticed it was…

I am in a slight rush this AM and otherwise got nuthin’, so here’s a fine plastic-lettered sign at #765 Grand Street at Humboldt for what was once Grand Cleaners.…

THERE is a somewhat forlorn sign on a rusty lamppost on Frankfort Street half a block north of Gold Street beneath a ramp connecting East River Drive and the Brooklyn…

EARLIER this week I mentioned the presence of a small building from the 1820s, hidden in plain sight on the Bowery opposite Rivington Street. Today, here’s another Bowery relic, of…

JAMAICA Estates, built on the northern edge of the former Town of Jamaica in the 1905-1907 period, occupies about 500 acres between Home Lawn Street, Hillside Avenue, 188th Street and…

THE thousands of subway passengers who pass through the Hoyt-Schermerhorn station daily, catching A, C or G trains, probably take little note of the abandoned side platform, which served shuttle…