Back in April 2021 I posted this:

If you’ve walked north on Madison from 125th Street you might have seen the faded ad on the side of an east-side building:

Looking carefully, you’ll see it’s an ad for shoe polish. The brand of which I can’t make out:

Recently I came across a photo of that very wall from the city archives:

Showing what the north-east corner of Madison/125 looked like in 1928. For more, see the Urban Archives link, below:

https://www.urbanarchive.org/sites/Hno2be8iueg/DiZibWRLpzi