REX Cole (1887-1967) was originally a lamp manufacturer, then became associated with General Electric in the 1920s and designed white enamel Monitor Top refrigerators. Famed architect Raymond Hood designed a series…

I was amazed to see this pair of vintage General Electric M400 lamps, on a Twin post in the parking lot of the GW Supermarket in Northern Boulevard just east…

MOST likely a testament to my being out of action for several months from mid 2022-late 2023, I had not encountered this genre of signage designed to point out highlights…

PARDON the appearance to today’s photos of the Type 24 Twin lamp on 5th Avenue — I had to use very old photos that were saved very small because Forgotten…

Continued from Part One WITH this page, I am proposing/inaugurating a new Forgotten NY series, Greatest Hits, that will be appearing periodically, much like the series began earlier in 2024, One…

In early April I began what I hoped would be a lengthy walk in Ozone Park and Howard Beach, an intriguing area with odd dead ends and even some hidden…

AS the years pass, more and more of the “faded ads” that I encountered in Forgotten NY’s early days 25 years ago are disappearing or ravaged by the elements. And…

HERE’S a painted ad for the Loew’s Woodside Theatre, which is actually still standing on Roosevelt Avenue and 58th Street. In one of the most unusual reuses for a theater,…

OFTEN, developers give names to apartment buildings that can be seen above the entrances. Family members, wives, husbands, children are often used; presidents or local politicians; but occasionally, developers will…

Continued from Part One THIS is the second of a two-part post describing my walk from Washington Heights into The Bronx High Bridge neighborhood and then back to Harlem. The…

THE New York Surrogates’ Court is one of the most extravagant Beaux Arts buildings in NYC and one building I’d really like to enter one day to see the fantastic…

HERE’S the front doorway of #5-#7 Ten Eyck Street at Union Avenue. Ten Eyck Street runs in three pieces in East Williamsburg, through the Williamsburg Houses, where it’s reduced to…