Today, New York City’s Bishop Crook posts feature just one model: they are all knockoffs of the Type 24 Bishop Crook — one of a number of Bishop Crook designs…

The 5th Avenue Donald Deskey lamps are dwindling down to a precious few. The Queen of Avenues has always had, until now, a distinctive lamppost designed for exclusive, or near-exclusive…

New York  City’s Type F lampposts, one in a series of early 20th-Century lampposts named by letter from A to G, once lined side streets in Manhattan and the Bronx…

Known officially as a Type 24M Twin, this post holds down the southeast corner of 5th Avenue and East 19th Street a few blocks from Union Square. I am using the…

For some reason, fire alarms, and the lamps that indicate their presence, still have a number of samples that have remained unchanged for over a century in NYC. Some fire…

With the Light Emitting Diode Revolution in full flower across town, a lamppost-loving webmaster wonders whether these Type G wall bracket beauties, of which a few dozen remain around town…

I’ll translate. A good decade after they first appeared on other wide thoroughfares like West Street (Joe DiMaggio Highway) and Jericho Turnpike in eastern Queens, the Grand Concourse, which roars…

By HOWARD FEIN Special to Forgotten New York A NYC lamppost ‘wearing’ a Yonkers light fixture on the northeast corner of what appears to be a simple crossroads of four…

Cannon Street, now just an echo of its former self, exists as an alley between Delancey and Broome west of Lewis Street. It has survived because it faces a public school…

Here’a an unusual Type G wall-mounted shaft at 41 Wooster Street north of Grand. It’s the only NEMA luminaire in public use, though I’m not sure if the Department of…

In the 1970s, the Department of Transportation installed hundreds of Cooper UTR Traditionaire lamps (or similar models) beneath elevated trains, especially on Roosevelt and Liberty Avenues in Queens as well…

In the 1950s what was then called the Department of Traffic developed special posts used on pedestrian walkways over parkways and expressways. Several clutches of them survive in town: I…