Other than Little Neck, the Queens neighborhood in which I spend the most time is unquestionably Astoria, where I sit on the board of the Greater Astoria Historical Society and,…

Spring Street, which runs in Soho from the Bowery west to West and Canal Streets, is named for an actual spring that has been contained in the sewer system for…

Once I get a critical mass of these, they’ll get their own page. This is an example of mid-20th Century traffic signs– in general, signs pointing to bridges would be…

BY GARY FONVILLE FNY Correspondent Again my ever ready Nikon D7000 was in use in my travels around NYC.  When you travel around NYC, as I do, you never know…

Older sidewalks, like this one in Brooklyn Heights, often include metal name plates identifying the manufacturer. Most of them went out of business decades ago.

You could park in his lot at Rockwell Place and Fulton Street for that amount once.

To paraphrase Yogi, you can observe a lot by looking. I was walking up Broadway after getting a new tour guide license when these painted window signs for Izquierdo &…

34th Street near Queens Boulevard. It’s all you really need.

A rusted sign reveals an alphanumeric telephone exchange on St. Nicholas Avenue and West 147th in Harlem. TR can stand for a number of things, but as this handy dandy…

The full technicolor glory of the Ritz Paints sign, St. Nicholas Avenue near 190th in Washington Heights.

Herald Square

Here’s some more examples of ancient signage found by FNY’s Gary Fonville… As a sign enthusiast, my eye always wandered to this building on Second Avenue near 116th Street in…