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...

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

Though I guess this happened last summer, I didn't seen it until this week: Zum Stammtisch, the wonderful old German restaurant in Glen...

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

Nearly two years ago, I posted an item about this fantastic painted ad in Ridgewood. I had initially thought it was genuine. But then I fou...

Last summer, I pitched a local food magazine an article about Karl Ehmer, the old school German sausage maker in Ridgewood. They went for i...

Madison Drugs in Ridgewood says it was established in 1957, though it looks rather less old than that. Do we believe them?

The 103-year-old United Presbyterian Church of Ridgewood is for sale . The always tasteful folks at Massey Knakal tell us "The subje...

It seems to be the week of unsolved mystery buildings here at Lost City. Here's a corner structure in Ridgewood Queens, at Onderdonk an...

At the sign of the flaming goblet. In Ridgewood, Queens.

Perhaps there are many Romanian butchers in the City. But this is the only one I've ever encountered. It's call Ridgewood Pork Store...

I think I know why this bridal center on Seneca Street in Ridgewood, Queens, went out of business. Take a look at the hand-painted image of ...

This amazing-looking painted wall ad, seen from the Seneca Avenue subway platform in Ridgewood, is, in fact, a fake. So Forgotten NY tells ...

Rudy's Pastry Shop, in Ridgewood, Queens, at 905 Seneca Avenue, looks new on the outside—at some point the owner modernized the facade—b...

In Ridgewood, Queens.

I would have liked to have gone to the Cypress Inn, on Stanhope Road in Ridgewood, Queens. But it appears to have disappeared some time ago,...

It was very difficult to resist the tidal pull of the avalanche of ethnic cuteness offered by this corner restaurant on Great Pond Road in R...

You see plenty of old-style vertical neon signs hanging around the City. But the things they advertise number only a few. It's either ...

I love the look of this closed deli at 677 Onderdonk Avenue in Ridgewood, Queens. And therefore it is extremely irritating that I can find o...

Not sure of the significance of this very large mural just off Seneca in Ridgewood Queens. Twin Towers, American flag. Check. A typically pa...