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    STOPLIGHT CONVERSION, Harlem

    by Kevin Walsh July 18, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh July 18, 2022 3 comments

    WAY back in the Easy 80s, NYC’s King of Lampposts, Bob Mulero, came across this hybrid gem on a street corner in Harlem. It appears that the top half of…

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  • One Shots

    STOPLIGHT VARIATIONS, 9th Avenue

    by Kevin Walsh June 9, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh June 9, 2022 3 comments

    I think my favorite Forgotten NY posts are the ones where I get to talk specifically about NYC infrastructure, most of it managed by the Department of Transportation or Metropolitan…

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  • Signs

    WALK, DONT RUN. Possibly the final DONT WALK/WALK signals in NYC.

    by Kevin Walsh June 4, 2006
    by Kevin Walsh June 4, 2006 8 comments

    Forgotten Fan Steve Fallon has discovered an isolated flock of DONT WALK/WALK signs, apparently the last of their species, in an isolated corner of the Bronx. These may be the…

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  • Street Lamps

    STOPPED SHORT. Remembering stoplight designs of the past

    by Kevin Walsh April 21, 2001
    by Kevin Walsh April 21, 2001 0 comment

    The little olive-colored stoplight, with its serrated exterior and the fluted base, once was to NYC streets what the passenger pigeon was to the skies. They weren’t on every corner…traffic…

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