Photo Gallery: Streetlights
 The Westinghouse Silverliners
are rare enough in NYC, as it is. To find them with sodium lamps
is even rarer. Apparently the newer ones were able to use them.
The Crown Heights, Bed Sty and Brownsville sections of Brooklyn
have a number of these Cheerful sodes, virtually all fitted to
Quarterloop masts.UPDATE 10/1999: No it ain't about lamp, it's about camp. The Brooklyn Museum, which is directly across the street from this lamppost, was the center of a raging controversial war this last fall of the 1900's. The controversy was over a display of provocative avant garde "art" that was heavy in imagery offensive to Catholics. As I write, the museum is now trying to fight the city, which is seeking to evict the museum from itself and cut off its public funding. Political correctness be damned folks. I side with the city and the church. You just can't slap animal crap on a religious icon and call it art. Says who? Says me. |