BAY PARKWAY STATION, BENSONHURST

I don’t have a lot of time before heading to bed around midnight as usual, but here’s a preview of my Bay Parkway page, which will appear soon, perhaps as early as next Sunday. In my 35 years of living in Bay Ridge, not once did I walk or bicycle the full length of Bay Parkway, which slots in between 21st and 23rd in the list of Brooklyn avenues. It’s important enough to rate three separate subway/el stations, in this case the West End (D) line on 86th Street.

I’ll have more to say about the station when the Bay Parkway page appears, but here I want to note these post-top platform lamps. This style seems unique to the Bay Parkway station, though similar post-tops can be found at the 62nd Street station to the north. For the longest time I paid little attention to station lighting, especially lamp stanchions, as in the back of my mind I didn’t consider them “true” lampposts. I have become more ecumenical, and now consider these in equal standing with lampposts found on streets.

The dome in the background, on 23rd Avenue, is an HSBC bank branch. However, its dome is echoic of the one found on the much taller Williamsburg(h) Bank Building, now One Hanson, downtown at Hanson and Ashland Places. This, too, was an original branch of that bank.

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5/6/24