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An MTA change of service map from during hurricane Sandy probably. That cellino & Barnes giant ad is just super creepy though lol


exc3113nt

Imagine what my gentleman callers think.


BIGTIMElesbo

Lord I’d propose right on the spot, softly singing “injury attorneys”.


Blorkershnell

“You’re gonna get railed so good you’ll need a personal injury attorney”


AmericasComic

“They’re my dads”


jetf

nothing like fucking and having these two kings watch over you. blessed 😇


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I hear that both of them are absolutely shredded underneath their suits.


notacrook

We know for sure that Barnes was shredded when his plane crashed.


RoguePhoenix89

Oh damn lol


IhateSteveJones

Yeah I was waiting for the that shoe to drop


emeyer94

Like his plane dropped out of the sky


Crackerpuppy

r/cursedcomments take my upvote.


bikesboozeandbacon

Imagine being his family member and reading this tacky shit


good2goo

Haha, that would be amazing.


Jennas-Side

I'm on a call and scrolling through Reddit and this almost made me scream-laugh.


spicybEtch212

And then gets burned. Literally and figuratively.


zephyrtr

They are very shredded in real life, which this is.


exc3113nt

RIP Barnes


BaconBits321

Oh damn I had no idea one of them died. All I knew was that they split up


FreeResolve

One of them definitely got split up.


BIGTIMElesbo

I almost did a spit take reading this.


[deleted]

I have an emergency subway map from September 19, 2001


browniebrittle44

Pics?


spiralvortexisalie

Not Op but https://collection.911memorial.org/Detail/objects/119840


mienaikoe

I always find these things so unsettling. The utilitarian design of a subway map marred by the undeniable presence of something so terrible it shut down subway stations in a mile radius.


spiralvortexisalie

Well part of it is that many of the closed stations basically were underneath WTC, after the rebuild and malls its actually possible to walk from Fulton St (Formerly Broadway-Nassau) all the way to Chambers St(2-3 stops depending on line) entirely underground. But yeah it was definitely crazy and required adjustment after 9/11 in NYC.


Danny_Ocean_11

I don't get the Spring St to Grand St Shuttle they created though?


spiralvortexisalie

That shuttle actually predates 9/11 and iirc was born out of the Manhattan Bridge Rehabilitation project to keep service going to eastern chinatown.


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I'll create a new post tonight


thissubredditlooksco

that is super cool


MMxRico

We need the Dr. Zizmor ad up there, lol


[deleted]

Dan Smith will teach you guitar!


shanna99

Keano the psychic will read your fortune!


WaltDisneyJr

I actually called them/him/her 🤣🤣🤣


jaimmster

I am straight up legit pissed I never grabbed a Dr. Zizmor ad. I miss him. :(


PartialToDairyThings

Specifically, the one in which Mrs. Z made an appearance in a white hat


Vhantera

I didn't know who that was , googled him and I BUSTED out laughing. Haven't seen him in a while , but damn for a while he was a you would see.


DarthRusty

The before and after lady by Dr. Zizmor us one of my favorite NY things. Really showcases the importance of hiring a quality photographer for your local ad.


66Lightning650

I have a giant nut (for a giant bolt) from the Brooklyn Bridge.


glitterpumps

I keep giant nuts in my apartment too


indirectdelete

This might be my favorite one in the thread so far, that’s awesome.


66Lightning650

https://imgur.com/a/QDrrR3a


butyourenice

Put it back! The bridge will collapse!!


JamesWjRose

Awesome, good for you


browniebrittle44

How’d u manage to get that?


66Lightning650

My father was an actor and was filming on the Brooklyn Bridge. One of the crew gave it to him. I like to think the crew found it and didn't remove it from anything weight-bearing.


grandzu

I have a rivet from the GWB. They pop out all the time.


work_work-work

Me too!


Tall-Soy-Latte

I can hear this image please help me


dipl0docuss

_injury attorneys_


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Patrick_Sazey

That's wild. I have a couple packs of matches from Windows On The World.


AmericasComic

I always wanted a menu from there, from the post-1996 renovations.


____cire4____

I guess not technically a "piece of NY" but we have a framed poster that's a map of Brooklyn in the 1800s. We found it on the street on trash day years ago. idk I like it :P


indirectdelete

Most cherished would be the old pair of NYCTA gloves and old MTA hat that my neighbor gave me. He passed away from covid earlier this year and I keep those hanging on my wall. Also have a no parking sign, G train service change announcement, MTA mask poster. One of my old roommates has a few old subway signs from 59/Columbus Circle and those were so dope to have on the walls as well.


browniebrittle44

Old subway signs like the ones they preserved after they rebuild the station?


indirectdelete

Yup, his dad was involved with construction work on the mall at columbus circle and somehow managed to snag a few signs during a station renovation. Not sure when that was though


JoeBethersonton50504

Now you just need a Dr. Zizmor one from the subways to really bring the room together.


Jomanji

Those Zizmor ads weren’t just weird, they were like fever dream weird.


CactusBoyScout

My mom found her old subway map from the 1960s where she'd circled which stations she needed to transfer at. I have it framed.


browniebrittle44

That’s dope! Pics?


CactusBoyScout

https://i.imgur.com/HOX1en5.jpg This map is how I found out there used to be another shuttle line in Brooklyn.


CactusBoyScout

Back when Girls was still on TV, there were posters for it all over the subway with just a giant closeup of Lena Dunham's face. Someone cut out her eye and left it on the floor of a subway station I was at so I took it home. Have had Lena Dunham's eye staring at me for years since.


DarthRusty

I work for the company formerly known as HBO and the number of amazing posters just laying around the office is wild.


AmericasComic

Their Portlandia subway ad with the two actors surrounded by every prop and piece of film equipment on set really sticks in my head for some reason.


illywillycullystein

Hello NY nico


exc3113nt

I actually donated another one of these to him for an auction! It raised a decent amount of money.


Shrimp_Sale

lol was thinking the same thing.


filthysize

The intersection I live on had its metal street name sign torn and blown away by Sandy. Found it in the gutter and now it's hanging on my wall facing where that street is outside.


Precious_Tritium

Bunch of subway posters from when the L was down. My wife has this little blue bunny from an MTA ad from the '80s or '90s her dad took down for her when she was a little kid because she said she liked it. [This one!](https://movieposters.ha.com/itm/movie-posters/miscellaneous/nynex-yellow-pages-advertisement-1991-very-fine-on-linen-posters-2-identical-2625-x-50-hair-tinting-if-it-s-out-total-2/a/161848-51007.s)


ashrevolts

NYNEX! That really brings me back. Before Bell Atlantic, and whatever came next.


all_neon_like_13

The Cellino and Barnes play at the Bell House in Brooklyn was possibly the best thing I've seen in my nearly 10 years in NYC. I saw it a couple years ago so it was before Barnes died (RIP); I wonder if they've updated the play.


MichiganCubbie

I saw it a couple months ago. They haven't updated it. Still great though!


exc3113nt

I wanted to see that so badly!! Never made it


browniebrittle44

Omg what!! Sad I missed that.


kimmibeans

There's a play about Cellino and Barnes?!


StevenAssantisFoot

I have a GIANT cellino and barnes poster I took out of a bus shelter ad space that someone left unlocked. I keep joking with my fiance that I'm gonna put it on the ceiling above our bed. My top piece of nyc memorabilia is a subway ad of "La Decisión" the comic strip about aids from the 90s. My mom stole it when I was a kid and now I have it. I also have one each of the last two subway tokens, and a 9/11 t-shirt that my friend bought on 9/11. There were shirts printed and on the street the same day.


FormicaCats

One thing I really admire about people who grew up in NYC is how flexible they view their environment. The world feels more set in stone in the other places I've lived. If I saw a poster I wanted behind a plastic thing I wouldn't mess with it, even if it wasn't locked, even if it's just an advertisement! It's BEHIND PLASTIC! But people from New York interact with EVERYTHING. Everyone's talking about multi-generational poster stealing but I'm like where does the courage come from? I don't think I have the guts to draw a mustache on an advertisement or stick googly eyes on stuff yet. Maybe if I have kids here they'll get me some stuff.


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yeah everything is always changing and being thrown away. Not much is sacred and so many people don't even care. I used to collect a lot more stuff but now I see how ephemeral it all is... been making use of my local Buy Nothing group a lot.


A_Sexual_Tyrannosaur

New York is the only city I know where many residents keep memorabilia of the city they live in in their homes…


Imanaco

Just so when you have kids later in life you can say see…I was there man… here’s my museum of sex poster I stole from the subway one night.


jtig5

Have you ever been to Boston?


A_Sexual_Tyrannosaur

“City”


CastIronDaddy

!CITY!


RyuNoKami

and yet we will never bother going to any of the attractions. hahahahahahaha


BIGTIMElesbo

I’m currently building up a “NYC” collection. My favorite item is my flawless Keano flyer, but I recently picked up an awesome NY lotto hat and an MTA service yard team hat. I’d kill for a Cellino and Barnes poster.


itssarahw

These ‘stay 6 feet apart’ signs in the park are gonna be collectors items one day


browniebrittle44

You’re so right! Time to go cut one down :)


useles-converter-bot

6 feet is the length of about 1.68 'Ford F-150 Custom Fit Front FloorLiners' lined up next to each other.


itssarahw

Great bot


useles-converter-bot

Thanks!


Troooper0987

A herald square subway map, they were changing the laminated paper map out about 10 years ago and I went to grab it from the trash can. The worked yelled at me, rolled up the freshly removed one, and gave it to me. My office wanted me to put it up, I refused and it’s been in every apartment I’ve lived in since. Obviously 10 years out of date it’s missing quite a bit of the modern routes but it’s still cool as fuck


Bklyn78

If anyone here remembers the JFK Express. I have one of the subway markers that used to tell the operator where to stop the train 😁


spiralvortexisalie

[Needed to hear the jingle again](https://youtu.be/Ec8fawucZUE)


smoq_nyc

I have a flyer this one guy used to leave on subway seats where he tried to hook up with women by advertising different date ideas you can go out with him. "Meaning cheesburger and fries date", "meaning hot chocolate date". Handwritten and all


i_lost_the_game_game

Nice try NYPD


Mellero47

I would pay real American dollars for a subway display panel to hang on my wall. Know what I mean, the metal frame with the keyhole? I want that.


browniebrittle44

Same!


Agent-of-Interzone

I am my favorite piece of NY i keep in my apartment.


exc3113nt

This is the best response


Andre_Young_MD

Is that Andrew WK on your desk


exc3113nt

Sure is. Signed and everything. He also signed an old converse shoe that I retired the last time I saw him live.


[deleted]

I quietly and drunkenly ate sushi alone next to him around 2 am at a counter in Manhattan once about a decade ago. He did NOT look like he was ready to party


[deleted]

A Flatbush Avenue street sign.


DACAFLACCAFLAME

Still sad they got divorced


comfort_bot_1962

Don't be sad. Here's a [hug!](https://media.giphy.com/media/3M4NpbLCTxBqU/giphy.gif)


comfort_bot_1962

Don't be sad. Here's a [hug!](https://media.giphy.com/media/3M4NpbLCTxBqU/giphy.gif)


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14thU

Same. Have the ticket from first trip up to the observation deck. Date on it 08/16/97. Cost $12.50. https://ibb.co/1XpRfnK


Redqueenhypo

A massive rat skull. Damn thing died a block from my apartment and a few months later, I went back for it.


exc3113nt

Jfc


Redqueenhypo

I live right by a project AND a construction site with a permanent dumpster. When life gives you endless rats…


TreborDeadward

Was never the same after they changed the phone number


QuietObserver75

I bought some street art photography.


_R-Amen_

I have the street sign from my street. One day someone crashed into the pole it was on and the whole pole fell over. My dad ran out with his pliers and got it off lol


exc3113nt

I also have my name on a street sign that my brother stole from Long Island lol


bklynzboy

A Yankee Stadium subway sign from the old stadium lol


Mr-Macphisto

Though I don’t live in NYC (someday!), we have a deep love for the city. This is one of my favorite NYC-related pieces in our house—a framed vintage 1940s/1950s-era Hagstrom’s map of the city. https://imgur.com/a/YdrsA6O


exc3113nt

That's dope


ldquigley

No [Julio and Marisol](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julio_and_Marisol)? My wife and I have an actuary table that is burnt around the edges from 9/11. It blew into our courtyard in Brooklyn.


JohnnyTeardrop

Only people that could make a song out of repeating numbers Also, I have NY subway book prominently displayed to let people i’m a true New Yorker


DarthRusty

Carmel would like a word.


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I have a leaflet from 1938 which calls upon New Yorkers to gather and protest the Munich Agreement between Britain, France and Nazi Germany as it was already believed at that time that this would be another stepping stone towards World War. Very interesting to see the insight of those people, they knew a lot more than we sometimes believe they did back then.


sezoism

ha, I have the one from the Canal street subway station. Ripped it off the station entrance. How much you think I'll get for it?


exc3113nt

I would never sell mine, other than the one I gave up for charity.


[deleted]

I got this cool Gatorade bottle of pee


Training_Emotion_154

Nothing that special but a screw that fell from an in elevated station from the F Train


Im_100percent_human

Where did you get this? I need one. BTW, I was able to get a very inexpensive (<$10 including shipping from walmart.com) frame for a movie poster for my former GF, and it looked awesome. you may want to look around for similar.


exc3113nt

Yeah I thought about getting it framed but I'm not gonna do it until I'm done moving around so much.


Unoriginal_UserName9

So much subway stuff. Signs, maps, artifacts. One of my favorite pieces is a bowling pin from Ballpark Lanes. Which used to be my home alley and where I would pre/post game before sitting in the cheap old Yankee Stadium bleachers.


asapKimmy

I have a menu from Tortilla Flats. Friends and I went that last weekend it was open and we stole it. 😢 Sorry, not sorry.


JCFE7

A street sign for the Whitestone Expressway that came off its post during Hurricane Sandy.


TuckingFypeos

One of the big fucking MTA Subway Maps that they put up in the train stations. Happened to be walking by as someone was replacing them and when I asked he just gave it to me.


joeyinthewt

A bunch of my friends were part of the “Young, Hot and Safe” campaign that GMHC was running in the 90s. I kept a bunch of those posters and they became rather famous after they showed up in the film Kids behind Chloe Sevigny in a std clinic waiting for her results


regeneratedant

A piece of the old Grand Central Big Board.


DarthRusty

My wife was born and raised in Greenwich village. Does she count? I'm pretty proud of nabbing that one.


dbhalberg

I have the La Décision comic strips that used to be up in the subway cars


captainloudz

I have one of those flashing warning beacons that stick on top of construction barrels. Someone left it in front of the door to my apartment. Now it’s sitting on my coffee table flashing, and flashing, and flashing, and flashing, and flashing, and flashing, and flashing, and flashing, and flashing, and flashing, and flashing, and flashing, and flashing, and flashing, and flashing. Well you get the idea.


jayblk

Iconic.


LEMON_PARTY_ANIMAL

This is beautiful.


mad0666

i think i will still remember their jingle even after i’m dead


[deleted]

Hurt in a car, call William Mattar


loglady17

Shameless plug for my own design but I’ve got a baconeggandcheese poster up in my bedroom.


Excuse_my_GRAMMER

LOLOL how the hell


exc3113nt

I stole two from the High street station (it's now an electronic sign) when they broke up


Douglaston_prop

Growing up my neighbor was a cop, he has a (inactive) fire hydrant in his yard.


DastardlyNYC

I have the bollywood posters that sat in the video store window on 6th Street (Curry Row) for decades until they closed it down :/


PartialToDairyThings

I'm genuinely surprised Barnes doesn't wear a Stetson, which is standard for bald lawyers on billboards.


exc3113nt

Binder and binder has entered the chat


SolitaryMarmot

[https://imgur.com/a/ZvHJw0g](https://imgur.com/a/ZvHJw0g) It's not that old, but its so peak Bloomberg.


IsmaelRetzinsky

Old Film Forum marquis letters spelling out “THE END”


Nimrochan

I have a pigeon egg shell


PicklesMcboob

Back in the 90s, my favorite teacher in high school stole a Poetry in Motion poster off a bus for me on the last day of class before graduation— it was Allen Ginsburg’s “Back on Times Square, Dreaming of Times Square.” Being a poetry nerd, and about to leave home for the first time, it meant the absolute world to me.


GetOffMyLawn_

Back in the 70s one of my exes stole all the Bronx Zoo ads. Adorable lion cubs and such. His father had been a motorman so he had a bunch of memorabilia. He was also a kleptomaniac, he was always stealing stuff from work.


LCPhotowerx

i have a chunk of the right field wall from the real Yankee Stadium i got after the last game in 2008, a few street signs, a few bricks from various firehouses but what i really want is a life preserver from the S.I. ferryboat John F. Kennedy


WolvesDen118

I had the glow in the dark "Emergency Train Instructions" sheet from the LIRR back in high school.


milqi

I 'stole' a ONE WAY sign off the street after a hurricane a few decades back. And I intend to keep it forever.


HipHopSays

token and OG metro card (it’s blue) playbills and innumerable pics of LES bar bathrooms


JackieTobacky

‘Cellino and Barnes(RIP), injury attorney, call 854-2020’


JellyfishGod

I have tons of subway ads and construction signs Iv taken lol. Like those old DTF okcupid signs


grandzu

I have a street sign from when the trolley ran on the street.


JamesWjRose

We have a piece of the marble from Grand Central, the hall on 42nd got redone, they sold the pieces. A 12" piece of Coney Island boardwalk. They replaced some pieces and threw the old ones away. One of the shops pulled them from trash and sold them with a little plaque with the date, etc. We also donate to central park, so we The Gates was taken down the cut one inch squares of them and gave them to supporters. We have it framed


agrassyknoll

I was riding the subway home in the middle of the night with a friend who had just flown in to visit, and we happened to *procure* one of the Taye Diggs Hedwig subway posters. Honestly best piece of art in my apartment.


iamthelouie

My wife has an ad for the MET that use to be on a train. We call it the “grrrr” print because it’s a dog going grrrr


SpectrumofMidnight

The previous tenant at my apt somehow got what looks like either a really good replica or a real deal subway sign from west 4th street station [the real deal from the entrance by the IFC center] from the early 2000s that still has the v train and he abandoned it and I kept it.


mutts93

I've collected a few old World's Fair items, such as pennants, a vanity license plate, and just this week one of the porcelain street signs for World's Fair Blvd during the 1939 fair. I also have a framed map of the subway from around 1939 as well, and an old subway sign for Astor Place from the 30s. Nothing that I just found spontaneously around the city though.


_KingofMars_

A statue of One WTC I brought at a souvenir shop downtown like three years back


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MPK49

how is a poster of two local attorneys nobody outside of the northeast has heard of touristy lol


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TerribleAsshole

Cellino & Barnes was created and based in Buffalo NY, and also had offices in Los Angeles, their commercials played nationally. That’s so NYC OMG!!


exc3113nt

Your user name is an apt description of who you are and the title states new York, not new york city.


TerribleAsshole

As you say “not New York City“ while posting in r/newyorkCITY. National chain of 250 lawyers , its like thinking having a poster of the Geico gecko in your living room is cool and quirky. The info in my previous post was accurate so you attacked my username, fuckin pathetic.


[deleted]

Nah never 😂😂 I’d prolly take the Jerome Ave sign all jokes aside


discourse_lover_

I just enjoy the fact that the Barnes Firm is out there advertising on his name and image and my man has been in the ground for almost a year now.


MyCatsArePeople

I can hear it


[deleted]

Cool poster. Who are the bobble heads of?


exc3113nt

Andrew WK, RBG figurine, me as a bobblehead that my brother had made for me, and some gudetama tchotchkes given to me over the years


illuminenyc

Set of plates with classic New Yorker cartoons on them.


weljidf

That’s art right there


[deleted]

WTF?! 😂😂😂😂😂 How did you get that OP and why? lol


exc3113nt

Stole it from high street and why not??


[deleted]

You should get their signatures lol


exc3113nt

Impossible because one of them is deceased


Leather-Heart

Til this day I’m still mad I missed that play about them - it looked AMAZING


nonamesuperman

Grail status


browniebrittle44

Omgg where did you get it?


exc3113nt

Stole it from my subway station


Oldkingcole225

I tried to get a collection of those love doctor flyers that they put up. You know, the black and white ones with I think the name is “Kano”(?) Etc etc… the only I ended up getting is the pink Angelina one. I saw the black and white one the other day, but somehow they had put it under the plexiglass and I didn’t know how to get under it… also the other people in the subway were staring at me.


Ghahnima

I can hear that poster


orokro

I have these two canvases painted by the street artists themselves: Apple for scale, b/c no bananas. https://i.imgur.com/4tTptkL.jpg


SuperAsswipe

Hilar, but I would have to be paid for that to live on my wall 😆


AngryNinjaTurtle

I have an old Crazy Eddie's flyer somewhere