Brooklyn Heights has launched a $2.7 million campaign to replace its current, modern streetlights with antique-looking lampposts, the Brooklyn Paper reports. The Brooklyn Heights Association has already received $250,000 in public funds for phase one of the project, and will soon receive $400,000 more. The 229 posts to be replaced are aluminum, “cobra-head” style lights, and they will be replaced with replicas of the old bishops-crook style lamps that used to line the streets before the 1960s. Each bishop’s crook light costs around $10,000, the Paper reports, while the cobra’s head lights cost $4,000 each. They are beautiful, they enhance the neighborhood, and they are consistent with the history of the Heights, said BHA President Judy Stanton. The bishop’s crook lights already line Montague Street, and the project does not have a set start date.
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