LAST OF THE SCROLLS, Riverdale

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Once again, I’m risking disaster. The last of New York City’s old-style scrolled telephone pole lamppost shafts sits here at the remote (for New York City) corner of West 254th Street and Palisade Avenue in Riverdale. Beginning in the 1910s until they started to be phased out in the 1950s, these shafts, in long and [...]

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