Original specimens of the Type 24M cast-iron lamppost, what Jeff’s Streetlight Site‘s Jeff Saltzman (he abdicated his crown of King of NYC Lampposts to Bob Mulero after he moved to…

Forest Hills Gardens, a ritzy community on the south side of the LIRR main line tracks roughly between Continental Avenue, Union Turnpike, the LIRR and Greenway South, was one of…

You’re looking at an increasingly vanishing lamppost specimen located at 5th Ave. and E. 61st Street, in front of the Pierre luxury skyscraper hotel. Slotted Donald Deskey lampposts, designed by…

A quartet of some of NYC’s oldest lampposts of modern design can be found on The 65th Street Transverse Road, at the east and westbound separated lanes, facing 5th Avenue…

The west side of 6th Avenue between West 48th between West 48th and west 51st Streets is home to 4 gargantuan office buildings, each with a building number ending in…

At Ralph Avenue and Flatlands at the west end of Canrsie, near the old Canarsie High School, there’s a handsome brick building with arched windows, with entablature proclaiming it to be…

While NYC’s last remaining gaslight post (now equipped with an electric bulb) in Patchen Place across the street is perhaps better known, this modified (missing ladder rest) Type 1 Bishop…

A couple of remaining original West Side Highway lamp stanchions can still be spotted on a cutoff elevated portion of the existing elevated highway, just south of West 72nd Street…

I was surprised to find a remaining ITT Model 25 in Woodlawn during the week. Most 1970s-era lights were purged for new sodium vapor models in 2009, only to be…

When I began Forgotten NY in 1998, there were still a number of original Type F castirons around, at far flung locations such as SUNY Maritime campus at Fort Schuyler…

One of my most favorite ForgottenTours I ever did was in the summer of 2008. I did a Lamppost Tour of Lower Manhattan, accompanied by NYC’s King of Lampposts, Bob…

In the mid-1970s, the Williamsburg Bridge landing area in Brooklyn, and several streets south of it, were given this distinct lamppost design, as well as several davit-style poles — at…