It’s the funny old store with a display that hasn’t changed in decades and has exactly what you need. It’s the clam shack, the ice cream stand, the well-worn diner, all wonderfully out of step with the current food trend.

It’s the startling juxtaposition — the reggae-obsessed Japanese noodle bar, the skateboard shop that also deals in floral arrangements — that could seemingly exist only in New York.

These are our Neighborhood Joints.

Five years ago, we began profiling some of these spots, sending a reporter once a week to a restaurant, bar, cafe, sports club or specialty shop that held a special place in its neighborhood.

Among the places featured in those nearly 260 articles are some very old ones: Mendel Goldberg Fabrics, est. 1890; Louis Shoe Rebuilders, a shoeshine shop in the Empire State Building older than the building itself. (It opened at that address a decade before the skyscraper went up.)