This is The Dog Ate My Homework edition of Forgotten New York. I had a page about 80% written about my adventures in Highland Park and Ridgewood Reservoir, but inexplicably, the WordPress autosave feature wasn’t running and so, when I refreshed the site this morning (if you leave a page alone for a few hours, it times out and you have to refresh the page) the complete page was wiped out. Our IT guy thinks he has the problem licked — he looked inside the hood and activated autosave, so it shouldn’t happen again.
Meanwhile, here’s an Olive-style stoplight I found on Crocheron Avenue and 170th Street in Flushing that I found when I first moved there in 1993. No doubt, it once held a two-light Ruleta model stoplight, but had since been outfitted with a Marbleite three-lighter long before I found it.
Shortly after I found it, the Department of Transportation wiped it out when it installed a long guy-wired boulevard-style 3-light stoplight on two of the corners.
Always bring a camera, and always have a text backup.
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7/14/19
4 comments
This may have been 171st Street.
We had lights like that on Jewel Avenue and also on 69th Road between the Grand Central and 108th street until a few years ago.
This post definitely had a two lamp signal mounted on it well into the mid 1980’s. I lived on Depot and 169th and remember it vividly. I believe this light was actually located at 171st and Crocheron.
Brian & Mike, absolutely, I walked past that light throughout 1956 to ’62 to go to P.S. 32. As a matter of fact, that’s the reason it was put there . . . as a result of the area’s Moms petitioning the city to have it done many years earlier. It was still there in ’72 when I left Flushing for Bayside . . . and there when I returned until 1988. Can’t vouch for 2019 as I’ve been retired in Florida for 8 years.