Ten years ago in 2008, Forgotten NY chronicled the remaining Twin Donald Deskey lamps on 5th Avenue, and found that their numbers were dwindling indeed. In the ten years since,…
5th Avenue
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There’s plenty going on in this shot of 5th Avenue looking north from 34th Street in the fabulous 50s, that I snagged from the Facebook group ONLY CLASSIC NYCTA SUBWAYS BUSES/LIRR/METRO…
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The 5th Avenue Donald Deskey lamps are dwindling down to a precious few. The Queen of Avenues has always had, until now, a distinctive lamppost designed for exclusive, or near-exclusive…
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NYC’s Deskey lamppost, a design of industrial developer Donald Deskey (who also designed the interior of Radio City Music Hall and the Crest toothpaste tube) was first introduced on Broadway…
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Photo: Bob Mulero From FNY’s “Ancien Regime” lamps page: The first castiron post to appear on NYC streets was what The System Electric Companies classified as the Type 3 Fifth Avenue…
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Since we recently lost another of 5th Avenue’s classic 1910s-era Twin lampposts, at 32nd Street, there re just 4 left from a proud history of hundreds. Classic Twin: 5th and…
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This ad of indeterminate age for Something Diamond and Jewelry Exchange appears high over 5th Avenue near Diamond and Jewelry Way, NYC’s premier block for jewelry commerce, West 47th between…
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John Masefield famously wrote, I must go down to the seas again, and I am also a creature of habit — I am drawn to certain areas over and over,…
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CONTINUED FROM PART 1: 5 For Lighting, Streetlight Themes on the Queen of Avenues On the previous page in this series, FNY explored Fifth Avenue’s status as the great repository, and ultimately,…
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Fifth Avenue is, as the late, great Channel 11 St. Patrick’s Day Parade compere Captain Jack McCarthy nicknamed it, the “Queen of Avenues.” It marches in an unbroken line from Washington Square…
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Street Lamps
ANCIEN REGIME: Before the Corvingtons and Crooks took over, there were all kinds of weird lampposts on the scene
by Kevin WalshStreetlamps powered by electricity first appeared on New York City streets in 1892, and while from about (as far as your webmaster can tell) the 1930s on, they fell into…
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BY THE THOUSANDS they came, back in the early 1960s, replacing the picturesque castiron Corvington longarms… It was a strange, exhilarating, depressing yet exciting time to be a six-year-old lamppost fan…