Here are scenes from ForgottenTour #63 at the City Hall Park area and Nassau Street, finishing at Broad and Wall Streets. All photos by Joe DeMarco and Bob Mulero. Descriptions will be found at each individual photo. ForgottenTour #63 4/9/13
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FORGOTTENTOUR #63 TOUR PHOTOS, City Hall/Nassau Street
April 9, 2013
Categorized in: Tours Tagged with: City Hall Park Manhattan
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BISHOP CROOKS
August 8, 1998New York City has preserved more of the classic Bishop Crook lampposts than any other of the cast-iron designs. In fact, the city has been busy since the 1980s bringing back the bishop crook design in newly installed posts, notably along Sixth Avenue in the Village and as far north as 23rd Street. The [...]
Categorized in: Street Lamps Tagged with: Astoria City Hall Park Financial District Manhattan Queens Riverdale Washington Heights
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TWINLAMPS. Two..two…lampposts in one
May 4, 1998Once the mainstay of multilane boulevards in the pre-expressway era, cast-iron twinlamps once decorated highways like the Grand Concourse in the Bronx and Queens Boulevard and Horace Harding Boulevard in Queens. They did appear in other situations, however, and I’ve captured two on this page. Twinlamps, and other castiron NYC lampposts, are classified by catalog. In [...]
Categorized in: Street Lamps Tagged with: 5th Avenue City Hall Park Harlem Madison Square Manhattan Tribeca