Having seen Roosevelt Island’s preserved trolley kiosk in yesterday’s FNY entry, I can now move on to an equally engaging one right next to it at the tramway landing. What…

Newark, NJ has installed some new faux-retro streetlights in its downtown area recently, but unfortunately, that’s served as the death knell for several grand old cast iron specimens along Market…

This magnificent specimen, albeit missing its glass reflector bowl, is one of thousands that formerly lit downtown Brooklyn’s side streets. Before and just after Brooklyn’s consolidation with Greater New York…

Cherry Street, which is named after a long lost cherry orchard, is one of the streets that run northeast in lower Manhattan, paralleling the East River up to Corlears Hook,…

I was surprised to see a remaining Unidor 400, manufactured by McGraw-Edison, on Northern Boulevard and Crocheron Avenue in Flushing. Until 2009, New York had a brimming bounty of lamppost…

From the King of NYC Lampposts, Bob Mulero, comes this photo of a Type G wall bracket lamp on West 158th Street under the Riverside Drive overpass. It boasted a…

On a recent ForgottenTour we explored Love Lane, a one-block alley in Brooklyn Heights. It is the remnant of an Indian trail leading down to the water edge, and was…

I think I’ll have to take New Jersey Transit to Ridgewood, NJ. Why? It’s got plenty of ancient “gumball” incandescent light fixtures, complete with their original telephone pole masts, and…

Here’s an original Twin lamppost from 5th Avenue’s original batch, first installed two to each intersection in the early 1890s. This original design was used exclusively on 5th Avenue but…

Getting the job done at 2nd Avenue and East 87th Street in Yorkville, but not a bit more, is this bare-bones lamppost. For the past few years, 2nd Avenue has…

This rather plain, prosaic 8-sided park lamppost is somewhat ubiquitous in some parks. It was introduced as a complement, or substitute, to the shorter Type B Henry Bacon lamp, introduced…

What are likely New York’s most minimalist lampposts can be found surrounding the 1977 slant-roofed Citigroup Center, on Lexington and 3rd Avenues and East 53rd and 54th Street. Some are…