You never know what strange creatures will show up under elevated trains. Here on a pillar supporting the BMT Broadway Brooklyn line (J train) on East New York Avenue at…

Here is a screen capture from a video made in the Seventh Avenue Line IRT Times Square subway station by a visiting Danish filmmaker. The film is labeled 1986, and…

photo: Bob Mulero I’ve known about them for years, but never did anything about them until now. The IND Queens Boulevard Line was opened in stages between 1933 and 1988…

photo: Bob Mulero As Kenny Rogers says, you gotta know when to hold ’em and know when to fold ’em. I’m going to withhold specifying the exact location of this…

200 Hudson Street is one of those huge loft buildings with hundreds of windows built in early-to-mid 20th Century seen frequently in Tribeca lining Hudson and Varick Streets. The building…

When the Third Avenue El was extended into the Bronx in the 1890s, Manhattan’s 3rd Avenue was as well, taking over the routes of several separate streets over which the…

Elmhurst Hospital, Broadway and Baxter Avenue, is marked by a stencil sign on the Manhattan-bound side of the Elmhurst Avenue local station on the Queens Boulevard IND, serving R and…

I’ve always preferred Boston’s “T” route maps to the MTA’s in New York (though apparently the locals disagree with my assessment). One one large surface, you have a line map,…

By GARY FONVILLE Forgotten NY correspondent Kodak is a perfect example of how corporate miscues can bring a once mighty and ubiquitous company almost to the point of extinction.  Kodak as…

Today, Manhattan (Financial District) and Staten Island (St. George) have Wall Streets, but Brooklyn no longer does. A street sign at Broadway and Arion Place, a couple of blocks north…

Most street signs that appear on corner buildings are functional and nonesthetic at best, but this one above the Mexican Festival restaurant at the SE corner of Broadway and 102nd…

One of the earliest efforts by the Transit Authority (today’s MTA) to provide signage indicating bus routes were these very simple white signs showing the route number in large type…