I thought, by finally dining at The Famous Oyster Bar, I might crack this mystery of a restaurant, which has dumbfounded me for 25 years....

Found among the comments on an item I wrote about the changes on Ludlow Street back in 2008, from the actual owner of the once-popular L...

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...

The Hutwelker Building is a handsome, simple, red-brick, four-story structure on Fifth Avenue and 19th Street in the South Slope. You...

I was surprised the other day, walking down Fifth Avenue in the South Slope, to spot a familiar blue and yellow awning I had been used to...

You can always depend on Block Drugs. No matter how much the East Village changes, no matter how many stores come and go and Second Ave...

It seems I've spent a lot of time in recent years waiting patiently for Totonno's to reopen following various disasters, and then...

They're dropping like flies, the old-school Manhattan dives. The Mars Bar, the Holiday Cocktail Lounge, the Emerald Inn. And now the ...

A tipster tells Lost City that, over the weekend, the classic art deco neon signs that adorn the Long Island Restaurant on Atlantic Avenu...