I usually make it a habit to stay out of police precincts — I’ve never been hauled in for a crime, and the only other occasion I’d have to visit…

Here’s an unusual sign stanchion at Northern Boulevard and 55th Street; it may not look all that unusual at first glance, but this is a post that generally supports stoplights…

Found recently on Bushwick Avenue. Photo: Gary Fonville 6/8/15

The Breifne Pub at Crocheron Avenue and 169th Street in Flushing has a nifty illuminated sign with raised lettering, though I’m unsure if it works at night. The name refers…

At #354 Bowery between East 3rd and 4th, a road that somehow resists all efforts of local developers to tame it despite the construction of numerous high-rise glass-walled apartment buildings…

Extra-large Department of Transportation street signs appear at intervals along fast and furious Kings Highway in East Flatbush. I can’t really say, but I imagine the DOT devised this method…

I was clattering around in Bayside in 2007 when I spotted this one-way sign outside a thrift shop. I didn’t buy it, but I shot it. I’m not sure when…

A sticker indicating the Verizon phone company has sufficiently peeled away on the mezzanine of the LIRR/#7 train complex in Woodside to permit view of its predecessor, Bell Atlantic, a…

Like “orthopaedic”/”orthopedic”, Throgs Neck in the Bronx can be spelled differently depending on where you’re from. The neighborhood in the southeast Bronx was named for a very early British settler,…

On FNY’s April 20, 2015 post I took a look at a relatively new Queens Midtown Tunnel bullet sign right next to the tunnel entrance in Murray Hill. FNY’s roving…

At the capital of Greenpoint, at Manhattan and Greenpoint Avenues, the former is identified as Charno Way on a lightpole. Investigating this anomaly I discovered that Manhattan was co-named Charno…

Everybody went to Schrafft’s. Kirk Douglas as a young struggling actor worked as a waiter in a Schrafft’s. Movie stars, politicians, even Presidents (Truman) stopped into Schrafft’s. Truman Capote got thrown…