I hadn’t checked on this Type 1 BC Bishops Crook that had stood sentinel at #90 East 10th, between 3rd and 4th Avenues, for quite some time — since I…
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One of these years I’ll win a trivia contest and, as the grand prize, get as long as I want to run around the Department of Transportation Street Light Yard…
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During the summer I checked on one of my favorite Bishop Crook posts in the city — one of the few remaining decades-old ones, that is. Though they ruled the…
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These lamps, unique to New York City, light the pedestrian walkway along Jamaica Bay at Beach Channel Drive just west of the Cross Bay Bridge. 9/15/13
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They once proliferated on NYC streets by the thousands: making their debut around 1910, they lit major avenues and boulevards, and any street that was too wide for their predecessors,…
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From the collection of Bob Mulero, the King of NYC Lampposts, comes this view of a possibly one-of-a-kind lamp that used to stand at the Brooklyn-bound exit ramp of the…
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As known in the catalog I use to research these things, the posts shown here are Type 41S and Type 41T, S for Single and T for Twin. They first…
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It’s something of a miracle that a truck hasn’t run it over, but this one-of-a-kind Twin still stands at Amsterdam Avenue, Hamilton Place and West 144th in upper Manhattan. The…
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West 30th in Chelsea. Otherwise sophisticated exterior building lamps somehow look cheapened and tawdry with those curlycue long-lasting fluorescents in them. Let’s go back to the original bulb-shaped bulb with…
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I first encountered a very odd Bishops Crook post in 1998, during the first flush of ForgottenMania, at the NW corner of Hudson and Duane Streets, opposite Duane Park. From…
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Two prototypes of the slotted Donald Deskey lamppost were installed at Broadway and Murray Street on opposite corners near City Hall in 1958. Besides being the first appearance of this…
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There seems to be some strange stuff, lamppost and luminaire-wise, increasingly happening in Sunnyside, Queens. While NYC’s streets until mid-2009 were a glorious mish mosh of lighting styles, from the…