•   An interesting and thoughtful story on the recent neon revival by Christopher Ross at Punch (with some good quotes by yours truly).   ...

I'm happy to announce that I will lead two Neon Neighborhood walking tours this summer for the Municipal Art Society!  Our East Village...

The recent closure of a Sleepy's Mattress franchise down on Delancey Street has brought to light one of the city's more noteworthy n...

Yesterday, Jeremiah's Vanishing New York reported the disappearance of La Parisienne , a classic New York coffee shop (young folks wou...

As reported elsewhere , the Subway Inn has happily found new digs after developers evicted the venerable neighborhood watering hole from its...

While strolling down Broad Street in lower Manhattan just before Christmas, something caught my eye - an old sign, of course.   A big vertic...

A gallery of lost New York storefronts is preserved in old promotional postcards, given out by restaurants and other businesses in decades p...