Undoubtedly well-known to Upper West Side residents, Murray’s Sturgeon Shop, on the west side of Broadway between West 89th and 90th Streets, is here on FNY because of its original…

What’s so unusual about this particular stop sign spotted on  a recent ForgottenTour in Brooklyn Heights? It’s easy to spot if you’re a NYC street sign aficionado. While most of…

There was a time when directional signs such as this one, on Plandome and Stonytown Roads in Plandome, Nassau County, were quite prevalent along America’s roadways. The advent of the…

Uruguay has, perhaps, the most wonderful of all of South America’s countries’ names; in the native Guarani language, it means “river of painted birds.” The warlike Charrua Indians successfully ended initial colonization…

BY GARY FONVILLE Forgotten NY correspondent Remember video stores, record shops, beeper outlets, shoe repair shops and ice cream/ fountain soda stands? These types of businesses once were ubiquitous in…

I’m fascinated with Rex Cole apartment building signs. He was a 1930s refrigerator designer. Gary Fonville has the scoop here. 5/27/14

A couple of relics on 70th Road and Metropolitan Avenue in Forest Hills… Now that the city will stop installing new “Curb Your Dog” signs and will presumably be removing…

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…