After WABC dropped its MusicRadio format in 1982 and went to all-talk I switched over to WNBC 660 (when I wasn’t listening to WLIR or WNEW for rock). The station…
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Hungarian immigrant Alexander Samuel Beck opened a shoe store with his brother Samuel on Fulton Street in Brooklyn in 1909. After the partnership with his brother dissolved he opened a…
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The Donald Deskey lampposts, first introduced in 1958, are gradually being phased out as the city no longer has the parts for them. With their double-slotted shafts they were eminently…
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I have been featuring Bay Ridge quite a bit this year — a ForgottenTour visited on 8/17/13 — and since my dentist is still there, I find myself going back…
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Samuel Klein founded the discount chain S. Klein before World War II, with the flagship store at Union Square East and East 14th Street, and the business eventually grew as…
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In the past I have chronicled the remaining “Wheelie” stoplights in New York City — those long-armed castiron stoplights outwardly resembling Corvington lampposts, but instead of the usual inner scrollwork,…
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In a super-rare occurrence, a Chelsea business has rid itself of a newer sign in favor of an older one that had been hidden for years. This laundromat at 9th…
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Time for another batch of signs picked out by FNY Correspondent and MTA employee Gary Fonville … The NE corner of 116th Street & Manhattan Avenue in Harlem is where…
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An ancient fire alarm enjoys forced retirement on 8th Avenue and West 29th Street in Chelsea. How ancient? Slope-roofed alarms like this one were only produced in 1912 and 1913.…
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Sometimes I get poked fun of for paying such close attention to minutiae like this, but I pride myself in the knowledge that I’m one of a handful of people…
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Gary Fonville, FNY’s man in the MTA and former city bus driver, has been working overtime of late uncovering Forgotten oddities all over the city. Here are yet more… …
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Hunters Point’s giant Pepsi-Cola sign has long been one of the familar sights from the East River in midtown Manhattan. Here it is in 2003, in its old position on…