BROOKLYN LIGHTS

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This magnificent specimen, albeit missing its glass reflector bowl, is one of thousands that formerly lit downtown Brooklyn’s side streets. Before and just after Brooklyn’s consolidation with Greater New York in 1898, Brooklyn had different species of cast-iron lamps, which somewhat resembled Manhattan’s Corvingtons, Bishop Crooks, Type Fs, etc. but were wildly different as far [...]

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