SCA Weekly News Review: October 4, 2020
News, with a special appeal to support James and Karla Murray’s efforts to save a large sign at Palomba Academy of Music in the Bronx.
Ghost Signs: Clues to Downtown New York’s Past
Ghost Signs: Clues to Downtown New York’s Past
By Frank Mastropolo
Atglen, Pa.: Schiffer Publishing, 2019 Hardcover, 128 pages. $19.99
Reviewed by Ronald Ladouceur
For crying out loud, you’re in Manhattan, look up. No, not at the new supertall or other showy structure trying to command your attention. But instead at the weathered, broken, and graffitied bits of commercial history that still cling to the City’s gritty surfaces. As Frank Mastropolo demonstrates in Ghost Signs: Clues to Downtown New York’s Past, you’ll be richly rewarded, for these artifacts, invisible until they aren’t, are portals in time.
As they say, every picture tells a story.
SCA Weekly News Review: September 27, 2020
Mike’s turn to drive.