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…

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…