120 Broadway, the Equitable Building, is one of those rare NYC buildings that occupy an entire block, between Broadway and Nasssau, Pine and Cedar Streets. It was designed by architect…

Originally, NYC fire alarms, introduced in the 1880s, were indicated by lights mounted on shafts above the alarm itself. However, when cast and wrought iron streetlamps were introduced in 1892…

In a neighborhood that has its share of historic structures (some of which, like the Grand Avenue “wheelwright house” have been razed in recent years), this lamppost is Maspeth’s only…

I’m thankful that a small number of “original” bishop crook lamps from the early 20th Century have been allowed to stand (mostly by default, but now most are landmarked) like…

A stretch of Kercheval Avenue in the Morningside section of Detroit, in the northeast part of town, still has some examples of Detroit’s oldest surviving municipal light post, some posts…

A pair of lampposts at Seneca Avenue and Palmetto Street have masts that take unusual twists to get around the elevated train girders that support the M train, on the…

I was meeting someone in Yorkville a couple of weeks ago and I was a bit early, so I started shuffling about, and decided to investigate these massive edifices between…

A rare General Electric Form 109 lamp, quite unusual in NYC, sits on property currently being redeveloped on Springfield Boulevard and 136th Avenue. Never used extensively in NYC, these lamps…

Looking east on Sutter Avenue from Van Siclen Avenue in 1966, I note from Google Earth that just about everything in this photo has now vanished. The brick apartment/storefronts have…

The back alleys of Brooklyn Heights offer, or used to offer, a variety of strange street lighting options. I found this one on the east end of Hunts Lane, a…

Light-emitting diode lamps (LEDs), which emit a bright white light, have already appeared on several NYC expressways and parkways, and it appears that Northern Boulevard in Long Island City and…

NYC Lamppost King Bob Mulero passes along a look at Special Post Code 346, which once graced a Major Deegan Expressway ramp. On the left is how it appeared in…