To my eternal regret I completely missed what was a lamppost graveyard in Tribeca, now one of NYC’s most expensive neighborhoods, for many years in the 1970s and into the…

FOLLOWING a relative period of inactivity due to various ailments, I have been gradually getting back into the swing and visiting realms where I haven’t appeared in recent years. One…

DUMBO, the section of Brooklyn beneath the Manhattan and Brooklyn Bridges, was by and large an industrial and maufacturing outpost for most of its existence; only lately has it become…

BELIEVE it or not a set of these metal “Whitestone” poles, complete with SLECO “cuplights” could be seen at the Queens side of the Roosevelt Island Bridge at Vernon Boulevard…

In Forgotten NY’s piece about “monumental” subway stations clad in concrete on street level, I wrote about the Ocean Parkway station serving Q trains… Ocean Parkway is the only “monumental”…

WHILE traipsing the northern leg of the High Line recently I noticed something interesting about the green Corvington streetlamps along the West Side Highway, officially called West Street here, but…

It’s always a pleasure to check on 5th Avenue’s dwindling set of Twinlamps. A handful of the Queen of Avenue’s “twins,” actually the second Twinlamp design, remain along 5th between…

LARGE cast-iron stoplights I call “Wheelies” first began to show up in the late 1920s as wide boulevards began to appear and traffic got heavier. They appeared on narrower roads as…

RECENTLY, there has been an interesting development for NYC lamppost aficionados, all five of us. A classic landmarked Twinlamp at 5th Avenue and 28th Street was discovered missing (by me)…

I  have not spent much time in East Flatbush lately or even over the years; in fact I used to bicycle through more frequently when I lived in Brooklyn. Once…

TAKE a look at the detailing on this lamp bracket found at Avenue L and East 99th Street in Canarsie. It once held a lightbulb surrounded by a conical orange…

I was plodding along West 23rd Street west of 5th Avenue in June 2024 when I spotted something curious. Over the past 20 years, a new species of lamppost has…