Photo Gallery Streetlights
 The most popular
form of hanging traffic lights over a street, in NYC, is via
these double-guywire masts, fastened to extra thick hex poles.
Some masts spanning wider intersections, such as this one, are
extended a few feet past the point where the guywires attach
to it.This was shot on Ft. Hamilton Pkwy, a block shy of the old Culver el, just before it's demolition in 1985. Note the increasingly rare Chevron shaped Mobil sign. The brownstone style rowhouses next to the Mobil station fill many a sidestreet in Brooklyn and the older neighborhoods of Queens. Around the 70's, to save on having to maintain 4 poles at a corner, the city began forcing the guywire poles to do double duty. Many started sporting extensions to hold Quarterloop and crookarm streetlight masts. The original streetlight poles, which often stood right next to the traffic lights, were then removed. Some guywire poles, stationed near parks, or special areas, have had to suffer the indignity of having recasted Corvington masts stuck on them, to make them look special. Why the DOT does not see the ridiculousness of this, is beyond me. |