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 slotted Donald Deskey lamppost was introduced on Broadway and Murray Street in 1958, and by the early 1960s they were being installed by the thousands on main avenues, side…
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In 1958, a new streamlined lamppost — completely different than the ornate cast and wrought iron posts that then lit NYC streets, designed in the Beaux Arts era, 1890-1915 —…
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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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CONTINUED FROM PART 1: 5 For Lighting, Streetlight Themes on the Queen of Avenues On the previous page in this series, FNY explored Fifth Avenue’s status as the great repository, and ultimately,…
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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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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,…
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As is well known to readers of Forgotten New York, the slotted Donald Deskey lamps, whose design was created by the famed interior designer of Radio City Music Hall, was…
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On an early April Sunday, braving winds that were colder than many days in January, I was unsteadily tottering in the East 60s near Central Park for other purposes, but…