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    TYPE F, CLINTON HILL

    by Kevin Walsh March 30, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh March 30, 2023 9 comments

    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…

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    DONALD DESKEY, Huntington

    by Kevin Walsh March 16, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh March 16, 2023 1 comment

    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…

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    EXPRESSWAY WALKWAY POSTS

    by Kevin Walsh March 11, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh March 11, 2023 1 comment

    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…

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    ST. NICHOLAS PARK LAMP

    by Kevin Walsh March 10, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh March 10, 2023 3 comments

    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…

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    GUMBALL, Rockaway

    by Kevin Walsh February 14, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh February 14, 2023 2 comments

    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…

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    DOUBLE MAST DWARF EXTENDED DESKEY, SCHUYLERVILLE

    by Kevin Walsh February 8, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh February 8, 2023 2 comments

    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,…

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    WATERLINE SQUARE LAMPS, Riverside South

    by Kevin Walsh February 4, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh February 4, 2023 0 comment

    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…

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    GREENWICH STREET LAMPS

    by Kevin Walsh January 30, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh January 30, 2023 3 comments

    325 Spring Street fills an entire rectangular block between Spring, West Houston, Washington and Greenwich Streets and has been home to several trucking businesses, including United Parcel Service, since 1949.…

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    EVOLUTION OF A LAMP

    by Kevin Walsh January 17, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh January 17, 2023 12 comments

    BROOKLYN Heights can boast a number of dead end alleys, which are rare in New York City. In Brooklyn Heights, these alleys owe their continued existence to Henry Ford, the…

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    LAST NYC SLECO, CANARSIE

    by Kevin Walsh January 13, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh January 13, 2023 4 comments

    THIS ancient warrior has survived this long In Canarsie, so I don’t think I’m putting it in danger by featuring it here. Located on obscure Nolan’s Lane off East 96th…

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    RIP LAST WOODEN PARKWAY LAMP

    by Kevin Walsh August 23, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh August 23, 2022 7 comments

    I can’t confirm it, as so far I have seen it noted only on Facebook, but apparently the last classic “Woody” lamppost in use on a parkway within the five…

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    LIRR PLATFORM LAMPS, Bayside

    by Kevin Walsh August 17, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh August 17, 2022 0 comment

    ONE of these months, I’m going to get my act together and assemble enough photographs of subway and railroad platform lamps to do an omnibus page on them. I have…

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