“Students Clothes” the first line of this ad reads, from the side of a turn of the century building on East 12th Street near University Place.
The letters below it are much harder to make out. Something & Co. It’s a reminder that the Village used to be full of manufacturers.
This is all that remains of a furniture ad in the Gramercy-Murray Hill neighborhood. “Room Furniture” I think it says.
“Cloaks & Suits” is all I can make out at the top of this ad, from the side of an Astor Place building. Then the name of the manufacturer, two S words connected by an ampersand.
What a wonderful and ghostly reminder that 100 years ago, women routinely wore cloaks!
[Bottom photo by Sheena Bodden]
Ephemeral New York 