Bob Mulero, who usually finds remaining ancient Streetlights of New York City, found this vintage hand-drawn sign on one of the pillars in the IRT Chambers Street station, serving the…

A couple of interesting things going on with this view of Brooklyn’s Broadway just west of Havemeyer Street: here the elevated train veers off Broadway to ascend a ramp onto…

A bit late on this notice, but Steven Gembara, author of New York City’s Red & Green Lights – A Brief Look Back in Time  informs me that this last…

Here’s an item I didn’t get to because of time constraints on the Forgotten NY Tribeca tour on Sunday, October 4, 2015: The gold leaf signage on this building on…

Plenty of archaeologists look for arrowheads, remnants of Native American populations of centuries before our own. At Forgotten New York I seek arrowheads as well — by which I mean…

I found the San Miguel Beverage Corporation on 39th Avenue in Woodside at just the right time. The sign, using ecclesiastical lettering or what, with a different design, is called…

On my bus trips in Staten Island as a  kid in the early 1960s, I paid close attention to signage, lampposts, lamp fixtures, stoplights, and other things that 5-to-8-year-old boys…

Odd how I had missed out on this one, since I’m a candy store aficionado (though I limit purchases to once or twice  a year, lest I become a bigger…

This store on Grand Street east of Bushwick Avenue has been closed for some years now, but its burgundy and beige storefront sign is still persevering; I estimate it’s no…

Telephone exchanges in the USA used to feature two initial letters, and if you have an old-fashioned dial or pushbutton telephone, you can still use them if you know what…

On one of Wythe Avenue’s older remaining buildings at South 5th Street, now home to Brazilian restaurant Miss Favela and across the street from the Williamsburg Bridge approach ramps, are…

After Greenpoint’s grid street system was laid out by developer/entrepreneur Neziah Bliss in the mid-1800s, east-west cross streets were named simply, A through Q Streets from north to south. Greenpoint Avenue was…