Almost any time I need to track down an old photo of anything in New York, I go to the New York Public Library's incredible collection ...

There's not much to say about the self-proclaimed Famous Oyster Bar of midtown, except that its signs had been among my very favorite th...

A dormant Facebook "Community" page honors one of my favorite vanished signs: that of the Penn Bar & Grill, which formerly pr...

There are certain signs around town that stand out, literally.  Not because they're old, but because they physically project out farther...

Last week's amazing Polar Vortex struck me as an opportune time to break out this post, which I've been sitting on for a while.  In...