In a  bit of a rush today but I’ll post one of my finds from a recent walk from Jersey City to Hoboken for a Blimpie sandwich (I was successful…

Here’s a variety of lamp in NYC getting increasingly rarer. Unfortunately I have no info on the brand, but these began appearing on underpasses in the 1970s when yellow sodium…

For years it was, for me, the Holy Grail of ancient lamppost photo opportunities: an original Corvington lamppost trapped behind the gates of a Con Edison substation like a bug…

During my walk down Union Turnpike between Little Neck Parkway and 164th Street, with some detours to the Motor Parkway (chronicled on this FNY page) of course I also took…

220th Place is a short dead-end on 46th Avenue by Oakland Lake west of Cloverdale Boulevard and south of the Wendy’s and Burger King in on Northern Boulevard where I…

For the years between 1960 and 1972 the General Electric M-100 lamp, a greenish-white mercury vapor variety without a glass reflector bowl, jockeyed for supremacy on the side streets of…

I don’t think I’ve mentioned the short-statured Bishop Crook found on the east side of Steinway Street north of 30th Avenue in front of the Riou Bar & Lounge (which…

This lamppost, which was at Hudson and Hubert Streets in Tribeca for about 6 decades before its removal in 1979, is undoubtedly a Bishop Crook, but at the same time,…

This Type G Corvington lamppost, defaced with a modern sodium yellow luminaire, was listing visibly when I photographed it at Gansevoort and Little West 12th Streets in the Meatpacking in…

In 1999 I was walking on the north side of Union Turnpike where it splits in two and becomes the service road for the Interborough (Jackie Robinson) Parkway and then…

I intend to do at least one FNY post every day this month, which I don’t think I’ve done for a couple of years. My task has been made easier…

A couple of years ago I obtained my best photo yet of the wall-mounted Bishop Crook mast located on the Nassau Street side of the former New York Times building…