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    CLEARVIEW EXPRESSWAY LAMP, Bayside

    by Kevin Walsh February 23, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh February 23, 2021 3 comments

    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…

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    PARKING LOT LAMPS, Auburndale

    by Kevin Walsh December 14, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh December 14, 2020 6 comments

    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…

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  • One ShotsStreet LampsSubways & Trains

    ATLANTIC AND FLATBUSH, Part 2

    by Kevin Walsh November 13, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh November 13, 2020 13 comments

    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…

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  • One ShotsStreet Lamps

    PEAK COVERAGE, New Lots

    by Kevin Walsh October 14, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh October 14, 2020 2 comments

    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…

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  • One ShotsStreet LampsSubways & Trains

    WOODSIDE ENTRANCE

    by Kevin Walsh October 6, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh October 6, 2020 1 comment

    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…

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    PLATFORM LAMP CHANGES

    by Kevin Walsh September 21, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh September 21, 2020 1 comment

    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…

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    GRAND AVENUE PIZZA, Astoria

    by Kevin Walsh June 8, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh June 8, 2020 16 comments

    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…

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    TYPE 8 LAMP, Tribeca

    by Kevin Walsh May 8, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh May 8, 2020 1 comment

    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…

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    LOST LAMPS OF NYC

    by Kevin Walsh May 3, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh May 3, 2020 3 comments

    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…

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    NEW YORK’S LANDMARKED LAMPPOSTS

    by Kevin Walsh April 12, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh April 12, 2020 15 comments

    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.…

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    CAUTION DEAD AHEAD

    by Kevin Walsh March 21, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh March 21, 2020 13 comments

    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…

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  • One ShotsStreet Lamps

    6TH AVENUE 1955

    by Kevin Walsh January 18, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh January 18, 2020 10 comments

    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…

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