An honor box for The Sun at Lexington Avenue and East 22nd Street is among many still found on city sidewalks. (Jefferson Siegel)

By Jefferson Siegel

There are ghosts on the streets of New York that are not leftovers from Halloween.

More than a month after the New York Sun ceased publication, their news boxes remain on many city streets, like this one on Lexington Avenue at East 22nd Street.

Once upon a time locals consumed various dailies, most now defunct, including the Herald Tribune, the Journal American, the Mirror and the World Telegram. Many would publish several editions in the course of a single day.

The Daily News used to publish a "bulldog" edition that hit the streets around 7 every evening. The Post published several editions a day, the last a stock market final with 4 p.m. closing prices. Before the Internet, an early edition of tomorrow's Times could be found on newsstands around 10 p.m. each night.

The demise of The Sun leaves newspaper junkies with a little more time on their hands and a little less ink on their fingers.

MORE: The Sun's Web site is still extant, where it's eerily still Sept. 30, its final day of publication.