Rose & Joe's Italian Bakery is a small hole-in-the-wall joint on 31st Street, at the end of the Q and N lines, in Astoria. It loo...

Wooden phone booth sightings are getting harder and harder to come by. Most of the booths I've seen, photographed and posted since 20...

A reader sent in this lovely photo of an old sign that sits above a children's clothing store called Thank Heaven on Austin Street ...

It's getting harder to cover the restaurants that belong in this column before they close. Lately, I've had to move some places u...

I've been inside Woodside's old Station Cafe dive bar many times over the years. I don't know how I missed that they had an o...

Wolf Jewelers is on Myrtle Avenue in Glendale, Queens. I have read an account that it was founded in 1982. With that sign? With that awni...

It's been a bad summer for New York signage . Jiffy Cleaners in Ridgewood, Queens, is the latest old business to trade in a uniqu...

I like the names of these Astoria bars. Sometimes just a slightly unusual handle can set an otherwise run-of-the-mill tavern off from its...

A couple years ago, I discovered that hiding under the mundane facade of Crater Candy Store at the corner of 30th Avenue and 31st Street...

I walked by the old Eagle Theatre in Jackson Heights, Queens, not two weeks ago. I looked forlornly upon the old building with its beautifu...

In Ridgewood, on Fresh Pond Road. Like the prices, too.

Two years ago, I blogged about this intriguing Ridgewood building at the corner of Onderdonk and Stockholm. I noted the odd color, the odd...

I was frustrated in trying to learn the backstory of El Sitio , a longstanding Cuban restaurant in Woodside. I could not discover the name ...

In Astoria since 1969. Not to be confused with the Parisi Bakery in Little Italy.

I was walking to a wedding in Howard Beach when I passed by New Park Pizza at the corner of 157th Avenue and Crossbay Boulevard. I've h...

"The Science of Hair," Man! Check out the beakers. And who the hell is named Hubert anymore?! In Rockaway Beach.

This is a building at 90-01 Rockaway Beach Boulevard that quickly captured my imagination. I think the mid-century architecture—part pragma...

The Tap & Grill in Rockaway Beach was a real find. I had no idea it existed when I walked by it by accident, when on my way to Rockaway...

The Queens Health Network apparently didn't want to spend the extra money for an awning long enough to completely cover up the former i...

No mistaking where this coffee shop is. Pretty heavy name for a hole in the wall joint. Is "Inc." really necessary? Imagine sayin...