These handsome lamps were standard issue in the 1950s for very specific purposes: they lit pedestrian walkways on expressways built during that decade. Poles very much like it can be…

You find the darndest things, just walking around with a camera. At Francis Lewis Boulevard and 35th Avenue there’s a mini-mall, a shopping center really, anchored by a Food Universe…

The other day, I posted a photo of Atlantic and Flatbush Avenues in about 1910, remarking on what has changed and what has stayed the same since then. Today I…

I haven’t got much today in Forgotten New York, so I’ll go back to its roots and talk about what got me interested in infrastructure. I enjoy seeing overburdened utility…

Today I was all set to write about Trimble Road, a little spit of a street running for one block along the Woodside Long Island Rail Road platform between 63rd…

Change is coming to elevated train platform lamps, and for me, esthetically at least, not for the better. Here’s a decades-old view of the Myrtle Avenue elevated platform on the…

Grand Avenue Pizza is not on Grand Avenue but it is on an avenue that used to be Grand. I’ll explain in a minute. Today I got out of the…

Today I’m showing an extinct variety of castiron lamp that could very occasionally be found on NYC streets. Oddly this post does not appear in either the Landmarks Preservation Commission’s…

On April 12, 2020 I wrote about 77 still standing classic lampposts, most from the early 20th Century, that have been recognized by the Landmarks Preservation Commission. Today, I’ll be…

During the continued COVID 19 Curfew, I have decided to indulge myself and return to the subject that pretty much got Forgotten New York started in the first place: lampposts.…

I have written about stoplights before, the red, green and sometimes yellow type, especially former mounting designs whose examples I found around town in the 1990s when I began compiling…

On 6th Avenue looking north at West 14th Street, a changing of the lamppost guard is imminent. A brand new set of aluminum octagonal-shafted poles have just been installed, sporting…