In Forgotten NY’s piece about “monumental” subway stations clad in concrete on street level, I wrote about the Ocean Parkway station serving Q trains… Ocean Parkway is the only “monumental”…

WHILE traipsing the northern leg of the High Line recently I noticed something interesting about the green Corvington streetlamps along the West Side Highway, officially called West Street here, but…

It’s always a pleasure to check on 5th Avenue’s dwindling set of Twinlamps. A handful of the Queen of Avenue’s “twins,” actually the second Twinlamp design, remain along 5th between…

LARGE cast-iron stoplights I call “Wheelies” first began to show up in the late 1920s as wide boulevards began to appear and traffic got heavier. They appeared on narrower roads as…

RECENTLY, there has been an interesting development for NYC lamppost aficionados, all five of us. A classic landmarked Twinlamp at 5th Avenue and 28th Street was discovered missing (by me)…

I  have not spent much time in East Flatbush lately or even over the years; in fact I used to bicycle through more frequently when I lived in Brooklyn. Once…

TAKE a look at the detailing on this lamp bracket found at Avenue L and East 99th Street in Canarsie. It once held a lightbulb surrounded by a conical orange…

I was plodding along West 23rd Street west of 5th Avenue in June 2024 when I spotted something curious. Over the past 20 years, a new species of lamppost has…

As many who look at Forgotten NY know, I’m a streetlamp fanatic and have been since at least 1962 at age five, when I woke up one morning to find…

In December 2021, when I squeezed off this shot, I was risking life and limb. Well, maybe not life, but certainly limb. That’s because that month, speeding bicycles still ruled…

I was amazed to see this pair of vintage General Electric M400 lamps, on a Twin post in the parking lot of the GW Supermarket in Northern Boulevard just east…

PARDON the appearance to today’s photos of the Type 24 Twin lamp on 5th Avenue — I had to use very old photos that were saved very small because Forgotten…