Featuring the death ray

Fading well away

the bolt

the inverse liquor-store problem

the six train has a history from the 70s that it doesn’t like to talk about

the shop on north main with all the antique safes and file cabinets

overexposed parking id

please write my tombstone in the entenmann’s typeface

the piroshki are good, but the eternal hellfire is unbeatable

midtown 80

that five is totally crazy. like it really wants to be a two or something

the care in that lettering is just stupefying

love the bow-legged capital r

clearly there should be more calligraphy in garages

evil-looking chemical company headquarters (not really ig)

couldn’t help myself

we all should

ge is THE name in hi-fi

more rotund characters. love the fat lip on the b

super gorgeous swash caps

mccarren gets the love, but i’ll take the mcgolrick lunch counters over it any day

sometimes taking mosaics places they weren’t meant to go is so the right thing to do

everything else fades....

on bow street

hollywood people on bedford

on manhattan ave

slumberland records fans still exist apparently

on greenpoint ave near franklin

single-digit addresses are über-quaint

neon must be caged or it will escape

idea forgotten

six letters, a brush, and earthtones.

lot next to the guy grilling kielbasa on the sidewalk

the most heavily documented disused warehouse in red hook

when you don’t have the real glyph, you use the one you do

sometimes letterspacing is less of a crime

on the way to key lime pie

less roller-disco than the exterior

i’m applying for my union card like tomorrow

i’m a total sucker for the cursive f with the loop at the bottom instead of the top

vertical type prohibitions ignored (and in avant garde nonetheless)

hidden under the awning at kim florist

back before we had widgets for such things

car repair

e. cucker inc at driggs and lorimer

diagonal stencil type on mcguinness blvd

love those filled-in zeros in the fraction

one of the two family businesses that manufacture all the rooftop water towers in new york

product shot

check out the elf shoe on the foot of the r in the sans serif

on norman by manhattan ave

how have real estate and alcohol not been combined like this before?

maybe a polish speaker can tell me what this used to spell out. predictably i think it looks better like this

the golden age of tailoring

near the water on greenpoint ave

long live aging corporate identity theft

beautiful slab serif on my favorite sign in greenpoint (which is apparently not long for this world given that they tore the awning off just a few days ago. never a good sign...)

in multiple layers

this has to be my favorite era of mta signage. those numerals ... there are no words.

most appropriate type treatment i could possibly think of

more numerals that leave me happy

the entrance to the superior sewing machine co. headquarters on west 25th st.

fish said the five and the three were having a sword fight

on the front of automotive high school

makes me sorry i wasn’t around after dark

overlooking the sea

in an overgrown vacant lot behind miles of fencing

knock-out brick typography

green/pink/grey

as the sun finally came out of hiding

spell that address out one digit at a time

nighttime on guernsey st

luggage trolley in union station with some amazing vowel characters

next-door to the warehouse

good old neon

cocktails on potrero ave

the corner of the san francisco galvanizing works

books are going out of style

in the part of soma where the tenderloin spills across market street for a few blocks

sometimes i gawk

some pretty gnarly ironwork going on here

barely legible

davis square

where i’m living these days

next to studio across from the ashes of the building that burned down when i was a 3/1

in the sewing machine district south of f.i.t.

before departing