Many Chinatowns around the USA make full use of local decor, even down to the directional signs and lampposts, and beginning in 1964 or so, NYC began to add its…

There really is something for everyone in this circa 1960 view (courtesy Brooklyn Historical Society) of Fort Hamilton Parkway looking east at 60th Street. For the vintage car nut, there’s…

Here’s a vintage Bishop Crook lamp that none of my reference materials cite — it’s completely forgotten and overlooked, on the west side of Riverside Drive between West 143rd and…

The long-armed “Corvington” lamppost, originally dubbed the “boulevard post” first appeared around 1900, give or take a few years, and were manufactured to illuminate wider roads, such as Broadway north…

A group of these nonstandard lampposts once stood outside #17 State Street at Pearl Street, which is the immediately recognizable 42-story building with the curved glass facade in lower Manhattan…

I’m happy to say I “discovered” this remaining Type G Corvington post, one of the lettered series of NYC lampposts in the early 20th Century, as early as the mid…

photo: Bob Mulero What do I remember about my 6-month stint in 1981 at Lexigraphics, a textbook company at 150 5th Avenue, my first full time job out of school?…

Photo: Bob Mulero From FNY’s “Ancien Regime” lamps page: The first castiron post to appear on NYC streets was what The System Electric Companies classified as the Type 3 Fifth Avenue…

What a treat it was for the young webmaster in the Swinging Sixties, when a parent or parents and I would board an express train from Bay Ridge to travel…

This classic Twinlamp with its unusual German helmet spike finial and extra ornamentation at the joints holding the Bell luminaires once stood in the traffic triangle at Canal and West…

Queens’ Sunnyside Yards were competed in 1910, at the same time as Pennsylvania Station in Manhattan and the four tunnels that at long last brought Long Island Rail Road trains…

In a residential section of North Los Angeles, a pair of guy-wired telephone pole masts with incandescent lamps survived until early 2014 at Kittridge Street and Radford Avenue (above)…  …