Manhattan

I can’t believe I have ignored this painted ad for Ragú spaghetti sauce on the side of a restaurant on 6th Avenue between White and Walker Streets in Tribeca until…

Mayon Crating and Shipping was once one of the many river-associated businesses in what was once called the Lower West Side but is now called Tribeca, the Triangle Below Canal…

The Serbian Orthodox Cathedral Church of St. Sava was constructed  on West 25th just west of Broadway as a northern branch of Trinity Church between 1850-1855 and is yet another…

A statue on Riverside Drive at West 112th Street commemorates a Democratic candidate for President who won the popular vote, yet failed to garner enough votes in the Electoral College, giving…

With the Light Emitting Diode Revolution in full flower across town, a lamppost-loving webmaster wonders whether these Type G wall bracket beauties, of which a few dozen remain around town…

I took the Port Authority Trans-Hudson subway (PATH Train) every day for a job in Hoboken in early 2016 and, while many PATH stations still boast the vaulted ceilings they…

When I worked at Photo-Lettering, NYC’s biggest typesetting shop in the 1980s as a proofreader, we dealt with proofs on all sorts of surfaces, from shiny Agfa paper to see-through…

The Hudson & Manhattan Railroad is unfamiliar to most modern-day commuters, but transit buffs recognize it as the present-day PATH train, an acronym for the Port Authority Trans-Hudson Railroad —…

Continued from Part One During the waning light of November 2015, we had a spectacular midweek day — it could have been the day after Thanksgiving — and word had…

Here’a an unusual Type G wall-mounted shaft at 41 Wooster Street north of Grand. It’s the only NEMA luminaire in public use, though I’m not sure if the Department of…

I’d say there are still  a few dozen of these clocks still in use in the subways, especially on the BMT and IND where countdown clocks have not been installed…

During the waning light of November 2015, we had a spectacular midweek day — it could have been the day after Thanksgiving — and word had come about a brand…