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- The Donald Deskey lamppost was introduced in 1958 at Broadway and Murray Street alongside City Hall Park, and was brought out as a standard NYC lamppost in 1962.
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Feb 14, 2014 · Thomas Edison’s Cast Iron Lamppost. New York City’s first ornamental street lamps were installed in September 1892 on Fifth Avenue between Washington Square Park and 59th Street and the Edison ...
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Apr 30, 2012 · THE FIRST DONALD DESKEY NYC LAMPPOST. April 30, 2012. 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 — appeared on Broadway on Murray Street opposite City Hall.
Apr 6, 2012 · New York City’s first ornamental street lamps were installed in September 1892 on Fifth Avenue between Washington Square Park and 59th Street and the Edison Illuminating Company provided the ...
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Type: 24A Status: Demolished The Type 24A wasn’t the first NYC bishop crook lamppost design; it had been preceded in the early 20th Century by the Type 1 BC which was the first of 6 separate bishop crook variants, only three of which survive. Today’s modern bishop crook reproductions are based on the Type 24A; however, they incorporate the 1 BC gar...
Type: 24A Status: Missing, at least for now This Type 24A Crook had presided the corner in front of landmarked Fraunces Tavern, itself a 1905 “reimagining” of the colonial-era tavern patronized by George Washington, since the 1910s. Formerly there was a fire alarm indicator lamp bracket that has since been stripped away. In 2019, building repairs n...
Type: 1BC Status:Holding firm This post is one of NYC’s few remaining Type 1 BC, among the earlier species of the beast. It’s marked by its short stature, thinner shaft, and garland ornament encircling the post. Type 1 BCs are entirely cast iron. They also have a ladder rest, a callback to an even earlier era when gas lamp lighters rested their lad...
Type: 24A Status:Hanging in One of two remaining Crooks on lower Broadway, it’s received a new black paint job in recent years. Traditionally, NYC’s castiron poles have been chocolate brown.
Type: 1 BC Status: Survivor In 2005, this post was removed and restored with a new paint job and a Type 24A “crown” which makes this post a hybrid of sorts. (Compare the Beaver Street “crown” seen above.) Note the anti-terrorism bollards.
Type: 24A-W Status:OK but hard to see The Type 24A-W is a newer variant of the older Type 24A. It’s somewhat taller than the 24A and has a simplified scroll design in the crown that is wrought iron instead of cast iron. Some 24A-Ws (but not this one) are missing the shaft capital just beneath the crook. This one on Pine Street is somewhat hard to p...
Type: 24-M “Corvington,” Status:Some good, some not so good The streets on either side of the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel exits, Greenwich, Washington, and Morris, are NYC’s largest depositories of remaining Type 24M long-armed Corvingtons. Original 24Ms go back to 1915 or so and were originally used on wider boulevards, but later were used on narrower...
Type: 24-M Status:OK Here’s a venerable pair of Corvingtons that can be found on the orphaned piece of Morris Street between Washington and West Streets. They are a variant of the usual 24M in that they’re a bit shorter. Unfortunately in the 1980s they were given modern sodium fixtures that replaced earlier Bell pendant lamps. The one on Washington...
Type: 24A Status: Smithereens This Type 24A bishop crook was waylaid when terrorists destroyed the World Trade Center on 9/11/01.
Type: 24A (Modified) Status: Demolished This post, which started out in the 1910s or 1920s as a regulation Type 24A bishop crook, underwent some massive adjustments after some mishap occurred with its crown. The Department of Transportation had no replacement crowns (new ones wouldn’t be manufactured in bulk until the 1980s) so they improvised with...
Feb 26, 2012 · The Donald Deskey lamppost was introduced in 1958 at Broadway and Murray Street alongside City Hall Park, and was brought out as a standard NYC lamppost in 1962. It was designed by architect and industrial designer Donald Deskey, who is most famed for the interiors of Radio City Music Hall, as well as the Crest toothpaste tube.
It depicts the construction of Thomas Edison's first domestic incandescent lamp electric utility in New York City with the central station at Pearl Street. Electricity had been discovered for some time, though this was the beginning of its real, practical, commercial usage.
Nov 21, 2014 · In 1697, the Common Council of New York ordered homes to put lights in front of their windows that faced the streets in an attempt to illuminate the city. In 1772, the city imposed taxes to install plain wooden posts on the streets themselves, which were soon replaced by gaslights in 1823.
