Photo Gallery Roadway Fixtures
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A pair of these "Pinwheel"
braced overhead traffic light poles still stand, at Park Avenue
and 46th Street, as Park enters the NY Central Building on it's
way south, around Grand Central Terminal. To my knowledge, they survive nowhere else. Even in todays retro-crazed times, the overhead traffic lights that have been attached to retro-castiron stanchions, have been attached via NYC's traditional double-guy wire masts, painted black to make you think they're 50 years old. This stretch of Park Avenue still had it's box traffic lights until the early 80's. As wide and busy as Park Avenue is, the city apparently was reluctant to mar it's special character with the ugly guy-wire poles that hold virtually all NYC overhead traffic lights. Most corners had only one 2-light boxlight, standing guard in the avenue's median divider. |