This tiny place is either called Broadway Shoe Repair or Ban's Shoe Repair. (The signs vary.) It is at 272 Broadway, under the shadow...

Klenosky Paint on Metropolitan Avenue in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, was the first shop I showcased in the running column "A Perfect...

Here is a study in contrasts, on the corner of Richardson and Humboldt in Williamsburg. In the foreground, we have a handsome, three-stor...

In western Williamsburg, an old-fashioned 1970s style Chinese take-out joint, with bulletproof plexiglass inside and everything.

Not a good picture, I know. But I had to run it. I love that Christmas trees are being sold in the shadow of the the Russian Orthodox Cathe...

It's the rare New York business that has both great old standard signage and great old neon signage. But Grande Monuments on Graham Ave...

Eater informs us of a potential Lost City landmark crisis moment that I didn't even know about, which is a good thing, because I'v...

Driving snow at 10 PM in north Williamsburg. Not a car on the street. Bamonte's shuttered up well before quitting time. People walking ...

I've been walking around Williamsburg, Brooklyn, for more than two decades. It's altered a lot in those years, I don't need to ...

In Williamsburg.

This Williamsburg storefront very aptly expresses the nature of this business: an old neighborhood bar that doesn't want to attract too...

I've conceived this new Lost City feature, "Perfect Storefront," as a kind of companion to my ongoing "A Good Sign"...

Well known, old time bar in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

Fireworks destroys Rosenwach Tanks warehouse in Williamsburg. Rosenwach makes all those great wooden water tanks you see on top of New York...

Don't know why I'm obsessed with these Target wall paintings. But obsessed I am. This is the third I've spotted. It's on Bed...

The other night, I passed by the storefront at 168 Bedford in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and found it occupied by a self-conscious eatery calle...

What a strange journey to preservation the Austin, Nichols & Company warehouse in Williamsburg has taken. As per today's NYT City se...

Typewriters. Adding Machines. Adding Machines! Sold! Rented! Repaired! Rebuilt!! But don't look for any of that here. You see from the ...

Nobody out there seems to care about the now-gone Quality Meat Market in Williamsburg, judging by the anemic response to my postings about t...

In July, Lost City reported that the old Polish butcher Quality Meat Market in Williamsburg was shuttered and didn't look likely to ope...