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    LONG DESKEY, Riverside Drive

    by Kevin Walsh May 24, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh May 24, 2022 3 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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    JERICHO LAMPS

    by Kevin Walsh March 3, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh March 3, 2022 4 comments

    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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  • One ShotsStreet LampsSubways & Trains

    1970s MTA STANCHION

    by Kevin Walsh February 17, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh February 17, 2022 3 comments

    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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    MORRIS STREET LAMPS

    by Kevin Walsh January 26, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh January 26, 2022 3 comments

    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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    ELMHURST HOSPITAL CROOKS

    by Kevin Walsh December 27, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh December 27, 2021 3 comments

    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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  • One ShotsStreet LampsSubways & Trains

    PLATFORM LAMP, Van Cortlandt Park

    by Kevin Walsh November 17, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh November 17, 2021 4 comments

    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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    THE LAST WESTINGHOUSE MO-8 (REALLY)

    by Kevin Walsh November 9, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh November 9, 2021 2 comments

    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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    WESTINGHOUSE WHITEWAYS, The Hub

    by Kevin Walsh October 30, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh October 30, 2021 7 comments

    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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    WINDSOR TOWER LAMPS, Tudor City

    by Kevin Walsh October 20, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh October 20, 2021 2 comments

    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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    RUSSELL GARDENS INFRASTRUCTURE

    by Kevin Walsh September 16, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh September 16, 2021 3 comments

    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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    LAMPPOST HUNTING ON JAMAICA AVENUE

    by Kevin Walsh September 12, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh September 12, 2021 10 comments

    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…

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