Heights' Lights
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,…
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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Brooklyn Heights Becoming Bishop’s Crooksville [Brooklyn Eagle]
I was hoping to see more posts like lalaland’s.
Does Stuyvesant Heights have its original bc poles? Lucky!
lalaland – your tax dollars already installed these retro-styled contemporary lampposts in bourgeois north Greenpoint a few years back. Not a wealthy hood.
“This will make Brooklyn Heights look more like Stuyvesant Heights. About time they caught up. ;-)”
Funny.
Fake history. That doesn’t seem like what this is. They are reproductions, of course, but no one’s pretending they’re not.
I’m not sure I like the idea of my tax dollars being used to prettify the wealthiest neighborhood in brooklyn. If the residents want to spend their own money enhancing the aesthetics of the neighborhood fine, but I would rather the city spend it on neighborhoods that NEED improvement. This is, after all, a neighborhood that opposed building a beautiful park for all of Brooklyn to enjoy…
jefrey: these stunning new contemporary lights that you are dreaming up, where will they come from? The NYC DOT? Ha!
I think we’re better off with the bp poles.
Just because you do not like them does not make them “fake”.
Miss Chiff lobs one from the ghettto at the high falutin BH crowd. 🙂
Snap
This will make Brooklyn Heights look more like Stuyvesant Heights. About time they caught up. 😉