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…
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In 2016 and 2017, all of New York City’s streetlamps were replaced by bright white Light Emitting Diode bulbs, which shine a bright white. Regular readers of Forgotten NY know…
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NYC’s King of Lampposts Bob Mulero found this 1970s MTA subway stanchion, complete with a silver metal post and old MTA “M” at West Brighton Avenue and West 1st Street…
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THE other Saturday I was puttering around in the Brooklyn Battery (Hugh Carey) Tunnel area in the arctic cold and then investigated Battery Park City, where I have acquired two…
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STRANGE that we remember things somewhat fondly after awhile that at the time, were borderline dangerous or scary. In April 2011 I was patrolling the Newtown Creek area with Mitch…
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I have begun to pay more attention to platform lighting on elevated subway stations, which comes in a variety of posts from the earliest ornate ones, to the purely functional…
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WHEN I moved to Little Neck in 2007 I really thought I had found the last Westinghouse MO-8 mercury streetlamp remaining in NYC. But when I visited Hamilton Beach in…
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THERE”S a lot going on in this scene in The Hub region of the Bronx, looking south on Elton Avenue toward where it meets Third Avenue (in the Bronx, 3rd…
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WHY am I using the Streetlamps stamp here at Tudor City’s Windsor Tower at 1st Avenue and East 40th Street, the largest building in the luxury apartment campus found between…
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PERIODICALLY, I cross the border — completely undefended by barbed wire, rifle toting guads and dogs — from Little Neck into Nassau County. The reasons for this have been diverse…
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If you haven’t noticed it yet in Forgotten New York, I do enjoy walking under elevated trains. You never know what you’ll find under there, infrastructure-wise; I’ve located 50-75 year…