We're facing north at the 235th Street walk bridge crossing over the Henry Hudson Parkway in the Riverdale section of The Bronx. The red brick high rise building to the right is typical of the 1950s to 1960s era apartment houses that dominate Riverdale. Actually, just about all apartment houses within New York City from that era sport the same basic red brick design. The fancier buildings sported air conditioner boxes under most windows, and the even fancier building had terraces. Particularly fancy neighborhoods, such as Riverdale, tend to have a lot of terraces going on.

We're aboard the 235th Street walk bridge, which at least in the late 1990s was definitely not handicap friendly, as per the stairs, albeit with generously spaced and graded steps. Note the unique Mini-Whitestone style light poles lighting the walk bridge, still sporting their 1950's era Westinghouse incandescent pendant type luminaires. You guessed it; those light fixtures do indeed have a nickname; Cuplights! I was very pleased to find others using that name for them within a few years of publishing it on my first site.
The Whitestone poles also have a nickname, Whitestones, named for the bridge on which I believe they first appeared in 1939, the Bronx-Whitestone Bridge. They went on to become the lamppost du jour on other New York City arterial roads such as the Gowanus, Brooklyn-Queens and Van Wyck Expressways, and a few bridges as well, including the world famous Brooklyn Bridge.
The completion of the Van Wyck in 1952 sort of marked their zenith. Future highways would only get plain vanilla steel or aluminum stanchions, with nothing of any particular unique style until the outlandish Donald Deskey poles came along in the early 1960s.
Parkways in New York City back in the day tended to sport rustic looking wooden lighting standards, that sort of resembled hanging poles, as in hangings with nooses. The Whitestone style lampposts tended to be used on commercial grade expressways. Therefore it was unusual to see the Whitestone poles deployed here, but there was at least one other parkway grade arterial on which they were used; the lower section of the East River Drive in Manhattan.

The southbound view shows off the Henry Hudson's LPS tube luminaires, attached to the "Big Crook" elliptical masts which are the least seen of all NYC lamppost masts, except maybe for the disappearing 1950s vintage shorter braced uplift masts. The LPS fixtures are rarely deployed within New York City except on major bridges. The Henry Hudson Parkway has been a rare exception.
A less common counterpart to the typical red brick apartment buildings of the post war era is the white brick style, such as the apartment house peeking into the photo here. It is better seen from the Henry Hudson 232nd Street page. A neighborhood knew it was considered upscale when it got a white bricked high rise apartment house. In Manhattan, they even built blue bricked buildings. That already is kind of pukey to me. Makes a neighborhood look like a Lego set.