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[1] By 1893, New York City had 1,535 electric arc street lights. [1] In New Orleans, arc lamps were used for street lighting starting in 1881. In 1882, the New Orleans Brush Lighting Company installed one hundred 2,000-candlepower arc lamps along five miles of wharf and riverfront; by 1885, New Orleans had 655 arc lights. [1]
The Joe DiMaggio Highway, commonly called the West Side Highway and formerly the Miller Highway, is a 5.42-mile-long (8.72 km) mostly surface section of New York State Route 9A (NY 9A), running from West 72nd Street along the Hudson River to the southern tip of Manhattan in New York City. [ 2] It replaced the West Side Elevated Highway, built ...
Little Red Lighthouse. / 40.8503°N 73.9469°W / 40.8503; -73.9469. The Little Red Lighthouse, officially Jeffrey's Hook Light, is a small lighthouse located in Fort Washington Park along the Hudson River in Manhattan, New York City, under the George Washington Bridge. [ 2][ 3][ 4] It was made notable by the 1942 children's book The ...
Baruch Houses. / 40.7175; -73.9772. Bernard M. Baruch Houses, or Baruch Houses, is a public housing development built by the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Baruch Houses is bounded by Franklin D. Roosevelt East River Drive to the east, E. Houston Street to the north, Columbia Street to the west, and ...
An early two-light traffic signal by White Horse Tavern in Hudson Street, New York. Image taken in 1961. Despite the failure of the world's first traffic light in London in 1869, countries all around the world still made traffic lights. By 1880, traffic lights spread all over the world, and it has always been like that, since then.
t. e. Alphabet City is a neighborhood located within the East Village in the New York City borough of Manhattan. Its name comes from Avenues A, B, C, and D, the only avenues in Manhattan to have single-letter names.
May 7, 1980 [ 1] Designated NYSRHP. June 23, 1980 [ 2] Designated NYCL. November 12, 1974 [ 3] The American Radiator Building (also known as the American Standard Building) is an early skyscraper at 40 West 40th Street, just south of Bryant Park, in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. It was designed by Raymond Hood and André ...
The Taylor–Wythe Houses were completed June 30, 1974 and consists of five buildings, 8, 11, 12 and 13 stories high on 4.2 acres (17,000 m 2 ). There are 525 apartments housing some 1,681 residents. The development is bounded by Wythe Ave, Ross Street, and Clymer Street. The B44, B62, 67 buses and the J, M, and Z trains subway routes service ...