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…

Once again, I’m risking disaster. The last of New York City’s old-style scrolled telephone pole lamppost shafts sits here at the remote (for New York City) corner of West 254th…

St. Mark’s Avenue runs from Park Slope in Brooklyn east from 5th Avenue to East New York Avenue in its titular neighborhood, with some interruptions. Actually it is a much…

The Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel, opened in May 1950 and designed by Ole Singstad, remains the longest vehicular tunnel in the world after nearly 65 years in operation. Work got underway in…