For all their prominence as landmarks, old signs are frail and ephemeral things in the end.  Hurricane Sandy reminded us of this last week, ...

The disappearance of Colony Record's old sign back in 2004 was one of those episodes that sewed the seeds of the project that became New...

A none-too-optimistic update on  the ancient sign at Lascoff's Drugs : the American Sign Museum in Cincinnati offered to make arrangeme...

I have scrapped my planned blog post this week to run yet another obituary piece, this time for J. Leon Lascoff & Son, "Apothecari...

Last week, while browsing some old digital photos I took back in 2006, I came across a shot of a relic sign I'd completely forgotten ...

A brief tribute this week to a sign I never saw:  the Terminal Bar, across Ninth Avenue from the Port Authority Bus Terminal, was not t...

Last week came truly depressing news (by way of Project Neon and Brownstoner ) on the disappearance of Maiman's Pharmacy and its spl...