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Jan 28, 2020 · Arc lights could illuminate huge areas: those installed on towers in 1860s New York lit up the street and several blocks around with a blinding light'. Some were even used to light fields, enabling agricultural labourers to work into the night—a far cry from a harvest governed by light-related circadian rhythms.
In the US, street lights using sodium vapor were first installed on a rural highway near Port Jervis, New York, in 1933. [1] In 1938, a study of sodium vapor light use at selected intersections in Chicago claimed that the new lighting had helped to reduce the number of accidents in those areas.
- Bridge and State Streets, Financial District
- Broad and Pearl Street, Fraunces Tavern
- 24 Beaver Street Between New and Broad Streets
- 50 Broadway Between Morris Street and Exchange Place
- Broadway at One Wall Street
- Pine Street Between Broadway and Nassau Street
- 7-13. Along Greenwich Street North to Edgar Street
- 14-15. Washington and Morris Streets West of The Brooklyn Battery Tunnel
- Vesey Street Between Church Street and West Broadway
- Hudson and Duane Streets
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...
When the new Stockholm Opera House opened in 1898, the stage was illuminated with a three color (white, red, and green) lighting system using 544- 25 candle power lamps per color-- a total of 1632 lights. 40 lamps per color in the Foot Lights, 9 Border Lights with 40 lamps per color.
Sep 1, 2008 · Between 1880 and 1920, incandescent lamps were significantly improved by new technologies that made them more efficacious. The earliest lamps had efficacies of 1.7 lumens/watt. In 1920, incandescent lamps had efficacies near 15 lumens/watt.
- David Dilaura
May 16, 2014 · May 16, 2014. Tired of cars — and bikes — running red lights? How about no lights at all? That’s the kind of traffic system New York had until 1920, when a series of tall bare-bones towers...
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In the late 1880s, Long Acre Square consisted of a large open space surrounded by drab apartments. Soon, however, the neighborhood began to change. Electricity, in the form of theater advertisements and street lights, transformed public space into a safer, more inviting environment.
