It’s August 1984, and while thumbing through this month’s edition of downtown arts newspaper the East Village Eye, you come across this New Wave–esque ad.
How exciting to see that a video store will be coming to East Ninth Street. I bet it did a pretty good business there for awhile too.
These 19th century–looking numbers and letters on random buildings give the city such an old-timey vibe. A terra cotta relief on East Ninth Street marks a particularly lovely apartment building:
No. 1 Sylvan Terrace, in Harlem, has a very colonial feel:
This walkup on Weekhawken Street is especially sweet; the entire street name is painted above the door:
Ephemeral New York 