Dumpster Ampersand

Stenciled ampersand discovered recently in NYC

Hook & Ladder

Dan Piraro’s Ampersand

Terri and I went to listen to a two hour talk given by one of my favorite cartoonists, Dan Piraro, at the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art (MoCCA) in NYC. After the talk, he generously took time to chat a bit with members of the audience and sign copies of his most recent book, Bizarro Heros. An unexpected bonus was this ampersand (below).
A bit more about our experience can be found here.

Upper East Side Ampersands

Corning, NY

Spotted while strolling through Glassfest in downtown Corning.

Central Park West and W 76th Street

A perfect ampersand pairing museum and library

Between Bleeker St & Washington Sq Park

Sent to us by Amy & Arron.

Design for Printing & Publishing! Too Cool!

Trowel & Square

This fascinating ampersand on 125th St. was captured by a friend riding on a bus this afternoon.

A bit of searching online seems to point that the “Trowel & Square Ballroom” was operated by the Order of Eastern Star, the Female part of the Masons. More on the trowel and square symbols used by Masons.

Green Ampersand

I assume Union Square Farmer's Market. Sexy Veggies and a nice slab serif. Thanks RAvenBoy!

Lightpersand / Luminasand / Glowpersand

Created in the Upper East Side, NYC.

“Gotta love Target’s $1 glow-stix!”

Central Station Alarm

“Here’s our new sign; pretty sharp and classy, eh? Joey C. sure knows how to make signs. Now, when he showed it to me at first, the ampersand was just this solid black. And I says, ‘Hey Joey, what’s with that!?!’ He says that this font didn't have an ampersand, so he had to use one from another font from his computers. So I says ‘What! I NEED an ampersand, and, I NEED it to match the D and the W, or I’m walking out to my truck to get my baseball bat to ‘practice swinging’, you know what I mean.’ So here's what he does, a really great guy he is; he had his nephew CREATE a custom ampersand, just for us, at get this, no charge! His sister’s kid is pretty good on the interwebs and now he'll have his work all around the city. Ampersands show we got class and besides otherwise it looks like our company’s name is DandW. Hey, did Dinelli make his monthly payment to us yet? Go pay him visit over lunch, will ya? And take your own bat this time. Hmmm . . . inlines sure show we got class.”


Note: The ampersand image from this post was deleted by accident -- hopefully we can replace it the next time we are in Manhattan.