The owner of 269 Clinton Avenue, near DeKalb Avenue in Brooklyn’s historic Clinton Hill, has for several years displayed a hybrid Type E-Type F lamppost on the walkway. Formerly, Type…

Ten years ago in 2008, Forgotten NY chronicled the remaining Twin Donald Deskey lamps on 5th Avenue, and found that their numbers were dwindling indeed. In the ten years since,…

I’m a little unclear on whether the ramp that takes Park Avenue traffic up over East 42nd Street and around Grand Central Terminal was built. GCT itself goes back to 1913…

The other Sunday I walked a good 6 miles on East Tremont Avenue between the Grand Concourse and the Bruckner Expressway (where there is a bus back to Flushing) and…

I was lurching around Woodhaven recently, and as part of my immersive Forgotten New York experience, I check the bases of lampposts to see when they were installed. Most of…

From NYC King of Lampposts Bob Mulero’s collection comes this photo of a 1950s-era wall bracket map from somewhere on South Street; the street has maintained very few of its…

The Westinghouse MO-8 (some say OV-8) once lit NYC streets by the hundreds or perhaps thousands from 1962 to 1972. Known as “open-bottom” or “cutoff” luminaires, they were designed to illuminate…

It looks like the time has come to say sayonara to a relatively unchronicled and unappreciated genre of lampposts I call the New Gumballs because of their spherical shape and resemblance…

I was looking through some photos in my IPhoto collection (I rarely discard any photos from Forgotten NY missions) from the summer of 2011, one of the relatively few times…

Los Angeles lamppost buff Glen Norman points out that a “radial wave” incandescent luminaire survives in Pasadena, on Grand south of Bellefontaine. Los Angeles, while diligently converting to LED, has…

  The general concept of the parkway system, devised by master urban architect Frederick Law Olmsted in the 1860s, was to extend large parks by making the roads that connected…

Parking lots around town sometimes feature ancient streetlamps that were never part of the streetlighting mix employed by the Department of Traffic, later Department of Transportation in NYC, such as…