Gary Fonville sends this sign pointing the way to the Marine Parkway Bridge at Utica and East New York Avenue. If you take Utica Avenue south all the way to…

I found this sign affixed to a courtyard fence on Washington Street and West 10th in the Village, a mile north of where it was found originally in what was…

Today’s post unites the neighborhods of Far Rockaway, Queens, and Bushwick, Brooklyn, where you will find a pair of the oldest variety of one-way signs remaining in New York City.…

I haven’t done a whole lot on NYC Parks Department signage — park name signs are usually in brown with the leaf symbol Parks uses as well as lettering in…

The Hudson Observer hasn’t been published since 1951 (when it merged with the Jersey Observer). The Hudson Observer Building is still at 111 Newark Street (at Bloomfield); Observer Highway, formerly Ferry Street, hasn’t gotten…

This pair of signs pointing to two bridges can be found mounted on a telephone pole at northbound Junction Boulevard and 46th Avenue. In the mid-20th Century, these signs were…

This magnificent deli awning sign from the mid-20th Century, Broadway and 48th Street, spotted on a ForgottenTour in 2010, has since been “modernized” and is not nearly so special. 4/10/14

For the past five years, the Department of Transportation has slowly been replacing street signs with new ones that feature the Clearview typefont in upper and lower case, following a federal…

While trudging through Glendale the other day, I encountered something I haven’t seen yet in Queens: a Lions Club and a Kiwanis Club sign on the same pole, this one…

Since I began photography for FNY in 1998 I have chanced upon these small, ridged stoplight posts I dubbed “Olives” because they were inevitably painted olive green. They could still…

Younger neighborhood folks, if they notice it at all, may be perplexed by this olive-colored post at the corner of 69th Road and 110th Street in Forest Hills. It used…

I haven’t had much luck with Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn. I shot an entire series on Brooklyn’s spine road between Brooklyn College and the Reformed Dutch church on Church Avenue…