Just the Pepsi sign, I mean, not the awning. Bold. Simple. In Yorkville.

I haven't done one of these features in a while, but I couldn't pass up the chance to showcase this little York Avenue gem of a s...

Orwasher's Bakery is one of those old New York institutions with a tricky history. It was founded at 308 E. 78th Street in 1916, and ...

On June 17, 2011, the wonderful Hungarian Meat Market in Yorkville was ravaged by fire. The institution, which traces its history back to...

Some posts can surprise you. For instance, when I posted this picture of Hav-a-Pizza in June 2011, I didn't expect that many people r...

From a reader, a memory of Yorkville's long-gone Hav-a-Pizza : I remember Hav-A-Pizza from the late 50's. It was the first place I...

Walking down E. 85th Street between Second and Third Avenue, I was struck by the unusual roundness of these ground floor buildings. They...

Glaser's Bake Shop, the 109-year-old Yorkville institution on First Avenue, and perhaps the oldest continually operating business from ...

I found this wonderful old liquor store sign over the weekend, at Lexington and 90th. Judging by the name, a remnant of the area's Germ...

Just found out that Yorkville's wonderful Hungarian Meat Market has shut down, victim of a fire that broke out on June 17. Didn't ...

On the Upper East Side.

While we're on a Yorkville nostalgia spree, let's post this picture. It's from a site that lists the names and addresses of ma...

A photographic gaze in Yorkville's Germanic-Czech-Hungarian past. The above is of a southern stretch of 86th Street, long ago supplante...

The Little Wolf Cabinet Shop on the First Avenue in Yorkville has been in business since 1956. It was started by John Wolf, Sr., a member o...

I recently got my first glimpse of the new Yorkville Second Avenue Deli branch that's it the works. It looks good so far. Should be a h...

Two years ago, I came up this old Yorkville deli on First Avenue and 78th. It had just closed. I loved the name and the sign and mourned t...

I've been getting some wonderful comments about life in Old New York lately. Here's one of the Bavarian Inn , a former German resta...

Bygone Yorkville icon, the Elk Candy Company, has long taunted us with the prospect that it would one day reopen and sell again to the marz...

Some years ago, Elk Candy, one of the last holdouts of Olde German Yorkville, closed its little palace of marzipan on E. 86th Street. From t...

Forgotten New York has posted a survey of Brooklyn's Court Street which cites yours truly not once, but twice. (Not that that's the...