5 For Lighting (Streetlight themes on the Queen of Avenues)

Do you ever walking around the Washington Square at 5^th Avenues? If you don’t, you better to go for it. While you walking around, you can see many of different streetlights around the buildings and the streets.

On the corner of Washington Square Park North, the beginning of 5^th Avenue, there are especially tall streetlights. Those lights can even attachment to illuminate the Arch. There are streetlights designed by Donald Deskey who is the most famous package designer and industrial designer. And there are Shoebox lamps. They look like squares and if you look closely everything meets the other at a 90-degree right angle. There’s more. There are the most value streetlights in historical and the oldest streetlights in NY. They call “twins” or “twinlamps”. Those lights are building by the 1800s~1900s after the property owner on 5^th Avenue complained the darkness of the street, “suffers at night from darkness almost like that of Egypt.” Back in the time, people are posting one for each corner, then the cater-corner and instead of the mid-block at the end. After hundreds of years, there are only three of them leaving at today. One is at 5^th Avenue and West 14^th street, another is at 5^th Avenue and East 19^th street, Southeast corner, and the last one is at 5^th Avenue and West 28^th street. They look as a big ball handing on two opposite side of the light. And if you look carefully, there also a fire line on the top of the light and halfway up the post were used to hold flags during parades.

For real, I am not interesting at those lights or lamps. But they surprise me in some how when I reading the website. Not those streetlights but I wonder how many things around me are from the pass I don’t event know and have been “forgotten”.