Wednesday, January 25, 2017
Fake Neon
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You may have noticed a disturbing trend rearing its spurious head in various forms of media lately. I write, of course, of the increasingl...
Thursday, December 29, 2016
Lights Out 2016: Signs We Lost This Year
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As usual, this's year's handful of neon casualties includes some real favorites - signs that just seemed too good to disappear. Ala...
Monday, November 14, 2016
Long Live Loft's
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A bright spot when we can really use one: word downtown is that Two Boots Pizza has decided to save the old Loft's Candy sign on Nassau...
Monday, October 31, 2016
Signs Inside
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In my book New York Neon , I point to the use of old neon signs as objects of decor as one of the most vivid illustrations of the complex an...
Tuesday, October 18, 2016
A Little More Loft's
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In writing two weeks ago on the discovery of a long-entombed Loft's Candy storefront down on Nassau Street , I described the sign as usi...
Tuesday, October 11, 2016
Loft's Lost And Found
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Two Boots Pizza, a NYC-based chain, will open a new location where one of New York's most remarkable neon storefronts was recently une...
Sunday, October 2, 2016
Loft's on Nassau
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Surveying New York's old signs for the neon book , I identified somewhere around 400 pre-1970-ish neon storefront signs scattered throug...
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