Cadman Plaza

Forgotten Slices
WILLIAM JAY GAYNOR MEMORIAL

by Kevin Walsh November 15, 2011

by Kevin Walsh November 15, 2011 6 comments

There it stands at the north end of Cadman Plaza in downtown Brooklyn near the Brooklyn Bridge entrance, a litle-visited memorial to a little-known NYC Mayor. William Jay Gaynor (1851-1913)…

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Street Lamps
DESKEYS. 1958’s lamppost of the future, in its twilight

by Kevin Walsh September 28, 2001

by Kevin Walsh September 28, 2001 1 comment

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…

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