I’m past this neon liquor store sign on Broadway west of Steinway Street all the time, but rarely late enough to see it lit up, like this. You rarely see…

Like the rings in a tree, certain clues can help you identify the age of street signs found around NYC. This one, at Beverley Road and East 21st Street, is…

A pair of these classic Coca-Cola signboards appear outside Michelle’s Restaurant at Bedford Avenue and Albemarle Road opposite the old Ebinger’s bakery complex. These signs may have been installed prior…

One of the more curious aspects of the Metropolitan Transit Authority is that it will preserve archaic street names for no apparent reason. There was a rationale for preserving older…

Street signs in Long Island change by municipality, so you’ll see different styles depending on what village or town you’re in. I was bumbling around New Hyde Park, crazed from…

There’s a right way and a wrong way to do everything, and the recent installation of Clearview street signs in Long Island City illustrates the point perfectly. The signs at…

Bangert’s Flowers, on 86-08 117th Street in Richmond Hill just west of Myrtle Avenue, started out as Fluhr’s in 1894 and was sold to the Bangert family in 1927. It boasts…

Heading north along Beach 121st Street in Belle Harbor for a Brownstoner Queens assignment, I was, at first, temporarily perplexed by the wood five-pointed stars affixed to hundreds of telephone…

I’ve been photographing old neon signs around town for over 15 years, but until now, I haven’t paid attention to the manufacturer, and as often as not, the manufacturer name…

I was stalking up 33rd Street in Astoria, on my way from a nutritious Whopper at Burger King to my biweekly penitence at the Greater Astoria Historical Society when I…

Here’s a handsome surviving awning sign employing black and brick red vinyl letters against a white background on Jamaica Avenue at 121st Street. These type signs were quite durable and…

Man, what a fuss has been made this summer (2014) about a recently uncovered store awning sign for the Hudes Delicatessen sign on Broadway and 103rd in the Upper West…