The National Debt Clock, which measures the US gross national debt and each individual family’s share in it, was installed by developer Seymour Durst in 1989 on a 6th Avenue…

The campaign headquarters of Eric Gioia, former Woodside, Queens City Councilman, can still be clearly discerned on Roosevelt Avenue between 52nd and 53rd Streets on the Sunnyside-Woodside border. Gioia (pronounced JOY-a) served…

When an awning sign was removed at 86-1/2 Nassau Street between Fulton and John Streets, a neon sign for Loft’s Candies was revealed. The first Loft’s candy store was opened…

East New York, a neighborhood in Brooklyn south of Highland Park and the cemetery belt, has been largely rebuilt since it was allowed to fall into decrepitude in the 1950s…

In June 2014 I did a lengthy walkabout, exploring Battery Park City for the first time and then heading up to the Village. Perfect photographic conditions, with bright sunshine and,…

Here’s another photo from ForgottenTour #1, June 1st, 1999, on a walk down Brooklyn’s Broadway. I caught sight of this ancient sign for the Glenwood Hotel on Broadway near Rodney…

Revisiting some more photos from 1999: today I have a pair of pictures from ForgottenTour #1, on June 1st of that year. We met at Kent Avenue and Broadway and…

By GARY FONVILLE Forgotten NY correspondent Several large mass merchandise stores were patterned after the success of F.W. Woolworth, both large and small. Kresge (now K Mart), Lamston’s,  McCrory and…

By GARY FONVILLE Forgotten NY correspondent Your webmaster Kevin Walsh missed this sign for the former Orloff Shoes at 753 Grand Street in East Williamsburgh, Brooklyn in a recent Grand…

Across the street from The Flatbush Reformed Church and cemetery, and two doors down from historic Erasmus Hall High School, another chapter in Brooklyn history has been temporarily revealed at…

There’s a short street in Gravesend, between East 4th Street and Ocean Parkway north of Avenue X, that illustrates how the city’s method of bestowing honorific street names has changed…

There’s just a bit of bad news in Richmond Hill, where two panels of the historic Bangert’s Florists sign have been removed — so I noticed during a Richmond Hill…