This thick-shafted, guy wired traffic light at Fresh Pond Road and 59th Drive in Maspeth is just like thousands of others around town. But when these large stoplights first appeared in NYC in the 1950s, they carried a pair of WALK/DONT WALK signals, if that much.
This one has a lamp to illuminate the park at the top, a shaft that formerly held a fire alarm indicator lamp, a cobra neck lamp shaft, a “no turns” sign, a street sign affixed to the mast, and an extra mast that formerly held a sensor that measured traffic volume, as well as the WALK/DONT WALK signal, which ten years ago became the Hand and the Man for non-English readers.
6/17/13