Bishop Crooks

On April 12, 2020 I wrote about 77 still standing classic lampposts, most from the early 20th Century, that have been recognized by the Landmarks Preservation Commission. Today, I’ll be…

During the continued COVID 19 Curfew, I have decided to indulge myself and return to the subject that pretty much got Forgotten New York started in the first place: lampposts.…

IT’S ALWAYS FUN when it’s time to do a lamppost page in Forgotten NY, because these vaguely anthropomorphic untility poles are what got me started with this Forgotten NY stuff…

Before the days when the New York City Department of Transportation began to install replicas of classic bishop-crook, “Corvington” long-armed lamps and twinlamp designs, they defaced still-standing classic lampposts that were…

Before it was Tribeca, it was the Lower West Side…and it had a lot of cast-iron lamps. Take a look at a former woebegone area. We’ll talk about the coelacanth…

As many Bishops Crooks lampposts that are still standing…there are legions of these old warriors that are no more. As late as the early to mid 1980s, the streets of…