The scene here is looking east on Myrtle Avenue at Prince Street in late 1970. As documented by Bill Mangahas of Newkirk Images, the Myrtle Avenue El has just been…
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The 5th Avenue Donald Deskey lamps are dwindling down to a precious few. The Queen of Avenues has always had, until now, a distinctive lamppost designed for exclusive, or near-exclusive…
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Since we recently lost another of 5th Avenue’s classic 1910s-era Twin lampposts, at 32nd Street, there re just 4 left from a proud history of hundreds. Classic Twin: 5th and…
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The Donald Deskey lamppost was introduced in 1958 at Broadway and Murray Street alongside City Hall Park, and was brought out as a standard NYC lamppost in 1962. It was…
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BY THE THOUSANDS they came, back in the early 1960s, replacing the picturesque castiron Corvington longarms… It was a strange, exhilarating, depressing yet exciting time to be a six-year-old lamppost fan…
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ADMITTEDLY this is not my favorite lamppost around town, but the lamps designed and installed by the not for profit organization called the 34th Street Partnership have now been in…
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PERIODICALLY, I post about the dwindling number of twin 5th Avenue Donald Deskey-designed lampposts; I did so in 2013 and 2016, and in the former year I listed the locations…
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CONTINUED FROM PART ONE In November and December it struck me that I had never walked Bell Boulevard all the way from north to south, despite living in eastern Queens…
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WHAT I have today is possibly the last specimen of what lamppost aficionados (all 14 of us) call the Cuplight, as it’s shaped like an inverted coffee cup with a…
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I haven’t yet devoted a page to this genre of streetlamps that appeared in NYC in large numbers in the 1970s. I don’t know the manufacturer (help me out in…
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I was in Huntington Village on Long Island a few years ago to attend a book signing for Wayne Coffey’s “They Said It Couldn’t Be Done,” his account of the…
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THE Donald Deskey lamppost, introduced in 1958, was a very adaptable and modular beast. Its most frequent use was the single-arm mast, and though SLECO stopped producing them around 1980,…