Pictured here, at 43rd Avenue and 159th Street, my former address in eastern Flushing, are new and old methods of indicating a fire alarm is nearby. On the bottom is…

The scene here is looking east on Myrtle Avenue at Prince Street in late 1970. As documented by Bill Mangahas of Newkirk Images, the Myrtle Avenue El has just been…

A frequently seen accessory on NYC lampposts in the Fab 50s and on into the Swinging 60s were large, bulky air raid sirens during the height of the Cold War…

While most subway buffs consult David Pirmann’s NYC Subway for looks at subway maps and active and retired subway cars, I occasionally look through it for subway platform lamp stylings…

I was looking out a bus window at Richmond Avenue and Arthur Kill Road in Greenridge, Staten Island, when I spotted a rarely-employed double bracket Donald Deskey pole. Never widely…

Bob Mulero, King of NYC Lampposts and author of the new book The History and Design of New York City Streetlights, Past and Present, has just released this gem from his…

photo: NYCRoads.com Here’s the Belt Parkway (officially Shore Parkway) looking west toward Starrett City (officially Spring Creek Towers) in 1974, the same year the housing project in Brooklyn’s far south…

In 2014, I wrote about the unusual pedestrian ramp arrangement at the Clearview Expressway and 39th Avenue in Bayside. In this situation, the Long Island Rail Road is bridged across…

Continuing with my Vanished Elevated Lamps and the Lampposts That Lurked Under Them series I began with a post showing the 2nd-3rd Avenue El at Division and Allen Streets, I…

Duke Ellington Circle, 5th Avenue and 110th Street at the northeast end of Central Park, features these last surviving examples of leaf-scrolled “Corvingtons” ( coined the name “Leafies” for them) that…

It’s always a sad day when any mass transit is eliminated, and it was indeed in August 1942 when the Second Avenue El was taken down. This shot shows a workman…

Boston Road in the Bronx roars from Third (not 3rd, in the Bronx) Avenue in Morrisania northeast to the city line with Westchester County, and as Boston Post Road and…