Restaurants, hotels, movie theaters, corner stores—glowing neon colors are still all over the city, giving off that enchanting glow that makes New York nights so warm and magical.
Cinema Village has been showing indie and foreign films on 12th Street and University Place since 1963 and was “built in the shell of a turn of the century fire station,” its website says.
Patsy’s opened in 1944 and has been billed as Frank Sinatra’s favorite restaurant. Or was that one of the other Patsy’s around Manhattan?
This is my favorite neon sign and object: the Desco Vacuum Sales and Service store at 131 West 14th Street. A technicolor beauty.
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Ephemeral New York 
October 11, 2012 at 11:40 pm |
The Cinema Village sign is one of my favorites!
October 12, 2012 at 12:12 am |
Mine too. Sublime beauty.
November 13, 2012 at 6:01 pm |
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October 10, 2013 at 11:57 pm |
[…] vertical sign feels very 1970s. Plus, how many vacuum cleaners are advertised in neon these […]
March 3, 2014 at 4:54 am |
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March 6, 2014 at 4:03 pm |
I want a neon sign for my apartment badly!