The lampposts of the East Village, along Broadway and Astor Place, seem to be festooned with psychedelic crockery. What mad home decorator has glued broken plates, cups, dishes, sea shells, even broken toys in the form of mosaics to the lower parts of lampposts, no-parking signs and stoplights? And why? These embellishments first appeared in [...]
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Monthly Archives: May 2013
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A MAJOR LEAGUE WALL
November 14, 1999There’s a pretty boring-looking, undistinguished building painted gray along Third Avenue between First and Third Streets at the end of Park Slope, where it meets the Gowanus Canal. Walking past, or riding past on the bus as I did for decades, you’d never guess what the building used to be used for. Actually, the [...]
Categorized in: Street Scenes Tagged with: baseball Brooklyn Gowanus
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WEDGE WAY IS UP. NYC’s 1960s non glass bowl lamps
November 9, 1999
Wedges, scoopers, turtlebeaks and nozzles! When the talk turns to street lighting, as it often does with me and Forgotten Fans (remember those cone-shaped things that turned up on bishops crooks in the mid-40s? Remember when they changed the orange fire alarm lights from globular to cylindrical? Why did they tear down those weird vertical [...]
Categorized in: Street Lamps Tagged with: Brooklyn Corona Dyker Heights General Electric Jamaica New Brighton Queens Staten Island Westinghouse
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PENN STATION
November 5, 1999Most people who have commuted into New York City from New Jersey or Long Island, or perhaps taken the train from other parts of the country like Washington, Boston, or Chicago in the past 35 years, have thought of Penn Station as the basement under the Felt Forum on 33rd Street. A large basement, with [...]
Categorized in: Street Scenes Tagged with: Manhattan Penn Station