Street Light People
Guess who's a talk of the town this week? Kevin of Forgotten NY makes it into the pages of the New Yorker due to his feature on the city's old street lights.

here are more than three hundred thousand street lights in operation in the city today, and this will be news even to most locals -- some thirty-five to forty models, with names like Bishop's Crook, Lyre, Reverse Scroll, and Davit Pole. (During the Depression, there were nearly eighty different types, fewer than twenty of which have been preserved.) It's a thrilling time, in any event, to be a street-light enthusiast: last week, an international competition to design a new, citywide lighting standard, fit for the twenty-first century, began in earnest. It marks the first major call for original street-light design in New York in almost fifty years. ...

- posted by Amy @ 2/10/2004 09:51:00 AM