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,…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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…  …

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…

This is the long-vanished 1.5 mile marker on Ocean Parkway, which had been located in Kensington in Brooklyn. Mile markers were arrayed at half-mile distances along Ocean Parkway when the…

For those of you that are unaware, your webmaster’s (my) name is Kevin J. Walsh, J for Jude. ForgottenFan Ed Dineen sent me a photo of a regulation Department of…

ForgottenFan Ed Wendell alerted me that there were some classic white-and-blue Queens signs turning up in Richmond Hill, relics of the on-location shooting for Men In Black 3, part of…

The streets of Astoria, Queens — especially the ones that run north-south– have been through three regimes of street naming. After they were laid out in the 1800s, they were…

At 52nd Avenue and 108th, at the Lemon Ice King in Corona, 2005. Needless to say, not there anymore. 7/7/13