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…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

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…

In the 1980s, NYC’s King of Lampposts Bob Mulero acquired this shot of a rather forlorn Twin version of the GE Whiteway at a lot on 12th Avenue (in Hells…

THERE’S good news and bad regarding the weird, 1940-era lampposts found on the north-south entrance and exit roads servicing the Queens-Midtown Tunnel on either side of 2nd Avenue between East…