Nuvern Avenue runs for a few blocks in Mount Vernon, near the Bronx line, in Westchester. But, there is a small piece of it in the Bronx, near its intersection…

I have been complaining about new street signs in the Cleartype font, many of them in upper and lower case, that have been appearing on NYC streets in compliance with…

25 Park Place near Church Street. This awning sign had been covered by OTB signage for many years.

Found on 2nd Avenue and East 52nd. PL stood for PLaza… Thanks Albert Mahoney

Here’s another one of those marvelous navy blue and white street signs used in Manhattan and the Bronx between about 1913 and 1964. Seaman Avenue and Isham Street are way…

I was loitering in Bayonne the other day and noticed, even as its streetlamp luminaires are being replaced with one new model, imparting a strangling uniformity, its street signs remain…

Dean Street and Nostrand Avenue, Crown Heights

This is the street sign style used in Manhattan and the Bronx beginning in the mid-1910s, and surviving in some cases until the early 1960s. They were navy blue and…

Ancient Queens street sign from the FNY Archives

In the 1950s, these yellow and black signs showing the cross streets appeared in Manhattan. When the DOT replaced them with vinyl and metal signs beginning in 1964, the yellow…

These ‘humpback’ navy and white street signs were standard issue in Manhattan and the Bronx from 1913 until the early 1960s. Politically, Manhattan and the Bronx were the same county…

A pair of black and white Brooklyn street signs in East Flatbush. These were standard issue between 1964 and about 1984.