At Fordham Road and the Grand Concourse in 1999, I passed two dead stores in the same building. For decades this was the flagship location of Alexander’s, the department store…

Here’s an aged porcelain street signs/arrow-shaped one-way combo I found on Bloomfield and 5th Streets in Hoboken in 1999. Google Street View confirms the cluster was still there in 2007,…

Manhattan and the Bronx shared this “humpback” street sign design from the 1910s into the 1960s (the last example was removed around 2000) since until 1914, they were the same county. …

The Interborough Rapid Transit was the first subway system constructed in NYC, opening October 27, 1904 and running for 28 stations between City Hall and 145th Street. Of those original…

This week I’ve been posting 35MM photos I recently found while rummaging through my collection. I found about 70 images of things that are no longer there, or have been…

I’m going to have some fun for awhile displaying the results I got sifting through piles of snapshots I got between 1998 and 2005 when I was still using 35MM…

I recently became aware of a former firehouse in Corona, a handsome yellow brick building on the north side of 32nd Avenue between 102nd and 103rd Streets. I haven’t had…

By GARY FONVILLE Forgotten NY correspondent Since the advent of home PCs, Facebook, Text Messaging,  Email, Cell Phones and many other technologies, communication has changed greatly as a result.  Who would’ve thought…

Tempus fugit. It’s been almost three years since I staggered around Hamilton Park in Jersey City and though I got over 90 photos on the occasion, I had yet to…

Until the 1970s or so, when the BMT, IND or IRT subways, or the successor umbrella agency, the Metropolitan Transit Authority, wished to highlight a museum, church, or service center at…

I’ve never been in the Subway Inn in either of its locations, but that’s OK, I’m really here to mention its red neon sign, which survived its transplant. For eight decades…

NYC’s Department of Transportation is gradually — very gradually — replacing its street signs, as many of them go back to the 1980s and are quite sun-bleached (though it seems…