It's been a year since I'll looked in on the old Rainbow Cafe in Sunset Park, the beautiful old restaurant and catering hall tha...

On Fifth Avenue in Sunset Park. About thirty years old, I think.

A quick and happy update on the beautiful signs that adorned the Rainbow Cafe in Sunset Park, and were removed and taken away yesterday. I ...

The beautifully signed Rainbow Cafe in Sunset Park closed up shop in 2008, and then was sold in 2010. All this while, we wondered what wou...

Ran into these two triple-decker signs, advertising businesses right next door to each other, on Fifth Avenue in Sunset Park. I love these ...

Actually, good signs . Lots of them, all mashed up, telling the world of Rico's Tacos in Sunset Park. One sign, however, lets us know ...

We in the preservation community were all pretty bummed in 2008 when the Sunset Park landmark Rainbow Cafe closed its doors. For a while...

Hernandez Furniture of Sunset Park is having a little fun with the sign left over from the building's previous tenant, Brooklyn Furnitu...

It's been nearly a year since the iconic Rainbow Cafe of Sunset Park shuttered following the death of its owner. Last July, the building...

In Sunset Park, Brooklyn. Picture courtesy of Lost Flickr Pool member lostinbrooklyn .

This is how it goes in New York these days. You discover a great old restaurant or shop, and soon after you learn it's going out of busi...

The Sunset Park-based blog Best View in Brooklyn reports that the Rainbow Cafe, one of the finest sights on Fifth Avenue in that nabe, has ...

You just know you want to have your wedding or party at Sunset Park's classic Rainbow Cafe. Certainly one of the oldest businesses along...

Is Frankel's, a Brooklyn hawker of work clothes and work shoes, "An American Treasure," as their storefront boasts? I don'...

This fantastic, albeit sadly deteriorating building, was not an armory or the mansion of a would-be baron of industry. It was a police stati...

Or, if you go by the south-facing sign, "O Food." Sunset Park.

Abandoned signs spellbind me. I'm talking about the store signs that remain in place even though the business in question has gone the w...