Photo Gallery Streetlights
 This pole, with the 40's-60's
era cuplight, was standard fare on the many walkbridges crossing
the NYC expressways, built from the 40's through the 60's. It
sort of resembled the arching masts of the Midtown tunnel approach
lampposts in Manhattan. They were usually painted green, but
shortly before I shot this, in October '97, some of these along
the Long Island Expwy, were painted biege. |
 I sort of view them as endangered,
only because I figure the city could wipe them all out, virtually
overnight, with a well organized walkbridge massacre. A number
of them have disappeared over the years in walkbridge reconstructions
and highway widenings.Most of those along the Long Island and Clearview Expressways still have incandescent cuplights. A large minority have been fitted with sodium bucket lights. Walkbridges with modern aluminum poles and crookarms usually have standard cobrahead fixtures. This speciman was captured on the LIE walkbridge just east of Springfield Blvd. |