By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent One of the great roads of Brooklyn is Eastern Parkway, a designated city landmark, the city’s first Olmstedian parkway, a ribbon of greenery connecting Prospect…
Eastern Parkway
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The general concept of the parkway system, devised by master urban architect Frederick Law Olmsted in the 1860s, was to extend large parks by making the roads that connected…
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Street Lamps
CHANGING OF THE GUARD: Documenting the beginning of the end of the ornate castirons in 1960.
by Kevin WalshROLL CALL OF LUMINAIRES I’ll admit it. There’s a big hole in my information on NYC lamppost manufacturers and makes, since I’ve not a clue of these designs’ actual names, nor…