In my now lost youth, I would bicycle all over Brooklyn and Queens from Bay Ridge before bicycling became a religion at whose altar politicians worshiped, creating green bicycle lanes…

THERE’S relics aplenty at the very same corner in Bronxdale where I highlit the NYW&B RR’s symbolic caduceus. I love NYC’s remaining curved-mast and bracketed streetlamps. This specimen at Matthews…

WHEELER Reflector Co. primarily produced traditional style pendant street lamps. When NYC introduced the finned telephone pole streetlamp masts in the 1950s, the flat radial wave incandescent lamps in use…

I haven’t yet devoted a page to this genre of streetlamps that appeared in NYC in large numbers in the 1970s. I don’t know the manufacturer (help me out in…

WORD comes that the two distinctive Belt Parkway pedestrian bridges that go over the parkway to the bike/pedestrian path along the Narrows are under demolition and will be replaced. I…

THERE aren’t that many “original” Type F lampposts remaining in New York City. In fact, off the top of my head, I can rattle off the locations where you can…

I was in Huntington Village on Long Island a few years ago to attend a book signing for Wayne Coffey’s “They Said It Couldn’t Be Done,” his account of the…

I haven’t devoted a page exclusively to a specific variety of lamp that was installed exclusively on pedestrian walkways that spanned expressways built in the 1950s; this variety, sort of…

WHAT St. Nicholas Park lacks in width, it makes up for in length, extending from West 128th Street all the way north to West 141st, but at the width of…

I have often said that you can find all kinds of strange objects lurking beneath overpasses in NYC, and years ago I found one of the last extant Gumball lamps…

THE Donald Deskey lamppost, introduced in 1958, was a very adaptable and modular beast. Its most frequent use was the single-arm mast, and though SLECO stopped producing them around 1980,…

In early 2021, Sergey Kadinsky profiled Waterline Square, the final piece in the Riverside South development, which opened for luxury units in 2019. Its usual compliment of glass-fronted towers, designed…