In 1999 I was taking a bike ride in Bayside, on the Cross Island Parkway service road a little west of the Clearview Expressway when I spotted three of four “Woodie”…

Since the early 1950s, thick-shafted, massive guy wired stoplights have guarded busier NYC intersections. They now number in the thousands since their introduction. However, very occasionally around town, you would…

In the early days of Forgotten NY, there were still a few two-light stoplights in NYC, missing the center yellow or “amber” warning lamp, which, of course, flashes for a…

I’ve been rummaging through my 35MM photo collection from the Early Days of Forgotten New York, 1999-2001 and have plucked out a few dozen depicting objects or scenes that have…

There’s a certain small percentage of FNY readers who will recognize what this is right off the bat. I wouldn’t blame the rest of you, since you’re not lamppost fanatics.…

Here’s a dayburning General Electric M-400 I found during a walk in Hoboken. These lamps shine a greenish-white when fully illuminated at night, but during the day, or when first…

Brooklyn once had a cast-iron lamppost design to call its very own.    Lamps that looked like this, known as the Old Edison Post No. 4, once dominated the downtown…

NYC King of Lampposts Bob Mulero snapped this scene at the west end of Canal Street in 1977. Here’s a special edition Type 24 Twin post, and in the background,…

At some point in the Super 70s — I forget which year now — the Department of Transportation thought that some Garment District side streets needed some extra illumination for…

Lampposts  nearly completely made of wood in various styles (hence my nickname for them), first appeared in the 1930s in use on the series of parkways spearheaded by Robert Moses in…

I decided to head over to City Hall Park, and the area immediately surrounding it, to look at the lampposts. But as usual with this stuff, it turned into something…

I was lurching around Greenpoint in the summer of 2015, nearly insensate from the brain-melting 88 degree temperature. The “Garden Spot of the Universe” is relatively treeless, and therefore, relatively…