BEFORE I talk about the lamppost I plan on discussing today, I’ll say a few words about the building that, in effect, provides its home. (Don’t worry, I’ll explain.) By…

So there’s lamppost news this month, and it’s up to you whether it’s good lamppost news. For a very long time…since the 1970s, in my estimation…the “downtown” section of Bell…

I’ve discussed these fire alarm indicator lamps before — Forgotten NY has been around now for 22 years as of 2021 — but I never get tired of featuring them,…

When conceived, it was assumed that the former New York, Westchester and Boston RR would eventually reach Boston, but instead at its lengthiest, it ran from southern Mott Haven in…

On this 22nd anniversary of Forgotten New York, I’ll turn to one of the items that got me started on this thing a couple of decades ago, a remaining Type…

I found this remaining 1960s-era pair of park lamps illuminating a playground in Highland Park, just off Highland Boulevard and Bulwer Place. This particular type first appeared in the 1960s…

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…