By GARY FONVILLE Forgotten NY correspondent I was in Lower Manhattan recently headed to a national stationery store to purchase computer ink. Don’t get me started on how computer printer…
City Hall
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Continued from Part 1 I decided to head over to City Hall Park, and the area immediately surrounding it, to look at the lampposts. But as usual with this stuff,…
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I’d say there are still a few dozen of these clocks still in use in the subways, especially on the BMT and IND where countdown clocks have not been installed…
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I haven’t got a handle yet on the new Fulton Center, the new glass and metal stationhouse, due to be populated with stores and other amenities, that opened in the…
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I first visited the Chambers Street BMT station, which serves J and Z trains during the week and is the southern terminal for the J train on weekends, for Forgotten…
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St. Andrew’s Church was consecrated on Duane Street and Cardinal Hayes Place, formerly City Hall Place, in 1939, replacing an earlier church named Carroll Hall built in 1842. Just before…
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Two prototypes of the slotted Donald Deskey lamppost were installed at Broadway and Murray Street on opposite corners near City Hall in 1958. Besides being the first appearance of this…
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The Type 24 Bishop Crook lamppost is the most common of the remaining older NYC bishop crook posts, and it’s the model on which the many thousands of repro crooks…
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You often see photos or artwork of NYC’s original City Hall station from 1904, when it first opened, or latterday photos when the Transit Museum allows people to make a…
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The BMT Chambers Street station sits beneath the Municipal Building with City Hall across the street. It once served as the end of the line for trains crossing the Manhattan…
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The title card shows what is likely the last Bishop Crook wall bracket lamp in New York City — a genre that I don’t think was all that frequently found…
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In 1958, a new streamlined lamppost — completely different than the ornate cast and wrought iron posts that then lit NYC streets, designed in the Beaux Arts era, 1890-1915 —…