Forgotten New York pays a visit to Third Avenue in Bay Ridge this week. Here’s a sample of Kevin Walsh’s take on the Chip Shop’s signage:

Bay Ridge is the last place on earth…OK, maybe the NYC area…that would be associated with punks at all, at least the punks of the late 1970s musical movement that produced the Sex Pistols…the Clash…the Adverts and many other British bands. (They in turn had taken their cues from American bands such as the Ramones who visited England in the mid-70s.)…imagine my surprise, with Bay Ridge not being a punk town by any means in that 1976-1980 period, at the opening of a branch of the ChipShop chain, which uses as its logo graphic designer Jim “Jamie” Reid’s classic Sex Pistols’ God Save The Queen 45-RPM sleeve.There’s a lot more to the whole post. Do read.