WRONG WAY CORVINGTON, Maspeth

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The long-armed “Corvington” lamppost, originally dubbed the “boulevard post” first appeared around 1900, give or take a few years, and were manufactured to illuminate wider roads, such as Broadway north of Columbus Circle, that the narrow Bishop Crooks couldn’t handle. In the early days of the century, dozens of different lamppost designs appeared, but the [...]

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