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    EVOLUTION OF A LAMP

    by Kevin Walsh January 17, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh January 17, 2023 12 comments

    BROOKLYN Heights can boast a number of dead end alleys, which are rare in New York City. In Brooklyn Heights, these alleys owe their continued existence to Henry Ford, the…

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    LAST NYC SLECO, CANARSIE

    by Kevin Walsh January 13, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh January 13, 2023 4 comments

    THIS ancient warrior has survived this long In Canarsie, so I don’t think I’m putting it in danger by featuring it here. Located on obscure Nolan’s Lane off East 96th…

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    RIP LAST WOODEN PARKWAY LAMP

    by Kevin Walsh August 23, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh August 23, 2022 7 comments

    I can’t confirm it, as so far I have seen it noted only on Facebook, but apparently the last classic “Woody” lamppost in use on a parkway within the five…

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    LIRR PLATFORM LAMPS, Bayside

    by Kevin Walsh August 17, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh August 17, 2022 0 comment

    ONE of these months, I’m going to get my act together and assemble enough photographs of subway and railroad platform lamps to do an omnibus page on them. I have…

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    GENERAL ELECTRIC WHITEWAYS

    by Kevin Walsh July 19, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh July 19, 2022 4 comments

    In the 1980s, NYC’s King of Lampposts Bob Mulero acquired this shot of a rather forlorn Twin version of the GE Whiteway at a lot on 12th Avenue (in Hells…

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    QUEENS-MIDTOWN TUNNEL LAMPS

    by Kevin Walsh July 14, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh July 14, 2022 6 comments

    THERE’S good news and bad regarding the weird, 1940-era lampposts found on the north-south entrance and exit roads servicing the Queens-Midtown Tunnel on either side of 2nd Avenue between East…

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    CITY HALL TWINS

    by Kevin Walsh June 22, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh June 22, 2022 4 comments

    ALAS, I have never been able to get a decent photo of the two vintage Twinlamps that light the plaza in front of the NYC City Hall entrance; that’s because…

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    BROOKLYN’S OLDEST CROOK

    by Kevin Walsh June 14, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh June 14, 2022 3 comments

    PASSING by Court and Remsen Street always stirs up some feelings of reminiscence for me because between 1975 and 1980, I passed the corner thousands of times as a student…

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    NYC’S LOST GASLAMPS

    by Kevin Walsh June 13, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh June 13, 2022 8 comments

    WHAT could be one of the two last gaslight posts on public Manhattan streets can be found here, at Broadway and West 211th Street. The other one is on Patchin…

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    ASTORIA EL LAMP

    by Kevin Walsh May 31, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh May 31, 2022 4 comments

    I’ve said repeatedly to watch carefully when walking under elevated trains. Not for falling debris (not that that can’t happen) but for outmoded or unusual signage or lamp fixtures, because…

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    LONG DESKEY, Riverside Drive

    by Kevin Walsh May 24, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh May 24, 2022 7 comments

    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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    5TH AVENUE DESKEY, Grand Army Plaza

    by Kevin Walsh April 12, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh April 12, 2022 2 comments

    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…

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