You’re looking at an increasingly vanishing lamppost specimen located at 5th Ave. and E. 61st Street, in front of the Pierre luxury skyscraper hotel. Slotted Donald Deskey lampposts, designed by…
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The J.M. Horton Ice Cream Company used to be a big deal. If you look at postcards showing NYC neighborhood scenes in the early 20th Century, a Horton’s ice cream…
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Louis Mattia ran a lamp repair shop on 2nd Avenue off East 52nd Street from 1960 to 1995. His impressive aqua green sidewalk sign, with gold serif lettering and PL(aza)…
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A sign advertising a long-ago NFL football game appears atop 1261 Broadway between West 31st and 32nd Streets, which runs through to 6th Avenue. The ad runs across the length…
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I was feeling pretty good in November 2011. After an arduous process, Forgotten NY had been moved over to a WordPress platform, though the initial phase was botched by the…
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Above: 6-1/2 Avenue at West 55th Street By the first decade of the 19th Century, New York City was beginning to outgrow the small area at the tip of Manhattan…
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I enjoy every Forgotten NY page I write but I think I’m in for some extra enjoyment this week. I stumbled on a folder full of classic signs, part of…
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West 116th Street comes to a temporary halt at a steep cliff marked by Morningside Park just east of Columbia University, and a sweeping view of upper Manhattan and beyond can…
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By GARY FONVILLE Forgotten NY correspondent How many of us have walked by this building at 242 W. 31st Street , across from Madison Square Garden, and never gave it…
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I was staggering around in the Upper West Side on a Sunday afternoon, nearly delirious from the insane 75-degree dewpoint, when I stumbled on a classic car on West 74th…
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A quartet of some of NYC’s oldest lampposts of modern design can be found on The 65th Street Transverse Road, at the east and westbound separated lanes, facing 5th Avenue…
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The west side of 6th Avenue between West 48th between West 48th and west 51st Streets is home to 4 gargantuan office buildings, each with a building number ending in…