I’ve likely shown this one before, but it’s an amazing survivor on 7th Avenue and 1st Street in Park Slope. In 1964 the Department of Traffic, as it was then…
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Gravesend historian Joseph Ditta passes along that the classic neon Harold’s for Prescriptions sign at the corner of McDonald Avenue and Avenue U, under the el station, has been replaced…
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CONTINUED FROM PART 1 I have an affinity for subways, trains and railroads… not at the “foamer” level, but I have enough knowledge to recognize model numbers on most NYC,…
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While President Ulysses S. Grant, an Ohioan by birth, is entombed on Manhattan’s Upper West Side and represented on Brooklyn’s Grand Army Plaza’s Soldiers and Sailors Arch, his perhaps most…
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Like the rings in a tree, certain clues can help you identify the age of street signs found around NYC. This one, at Beverley Road and East 21st Street, is…
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A pair of these classic Coca-Cola signboards appear outside Michelle’s Restaurant at Bedford Avenue and Albemarle Road opposite the old Ebinger’s bakery complex. These signs may have been installed prior…
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Gary Fonville found a palimpsest of painted-on-glass signs at Bushwick Avenue and Moffat Street, GROCERY and EX-LAX, THE CHOCOLATED LAXATIVE. Not sure which came first. I wonder what gastrointestinal medication…
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Cascade Linen Service, which supplied table napkins and tablecloths to restaurants citywide, called this modest red brick building at Myrtle and Marcy Avenues home from 1898-2010, but developers have had…
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CONTINUED FROM PART 1 In this preternaturally mild summer [2014] only the exorbitantly high transit fares and my volunteer work at Greater Astoria Historical Society are keeping me from roving…
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Havemeyer Park was recently [2012] hewn out of what was formerly an empty lot and before that, a series of warehouses connected by a waterside railroad along Kent Avenue between…
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In this preternaturally mild summer [2014] only the exorbitantly high transit fares and my volunteer work at Greater Astoria Historical Society are keeping me from roving all over town most…
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As of early 2014 I’m looking around for work and have been “freelancing” for three years. Most of my career has consisted of working with print, editing, writing, proofreading, and…