I was walking up Avenue A about a month ago when I notice a lot of scaffolded over the building that houses the Gracefully deli—apparentl...

I don't think I've ever posted an item regarding Kew Gardens. Well, that changes today, as a kind reader sent me this photo of a ...

A reader sent to me this photo of a lovely old Delicatessen sign that was uncovered during construction on a storefront at Broadway and 1...

I have to say, Giambelli's must have been some place. I wrote about it's closing , after 50 years on E. 50th Street, five years...

A couple years ago, I posted an item about how the television series "Miami Vice," in 1985, was allowed to blow up up an old b...

Looks like I have some globe-trotting readers. A native of Edinburgh, who was recently traveling in San Francisco, snapped this shot from...

A reader who has been very good about spying old wooden phone booths in the City and sending me shots of them, has done so again! This ...

Old Kaye's Footwear, which once sold Florsheim Shoes in San Francisco's Chinatown, doesn't exist anymore, but the handsome si...

An old bit of signage in the Uptown neighborhood of New Orleans. It is currently the home of the Creole Creamery, an ice cream joint. McK...

I've long been intrigued by this small trick building on Fulton Mall, largely because of its unusual, curbed cornice, which appears t...