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.
Light Pork in Brooklyn Heights [Brooklyn Paper]
Brooklyn Heights Becoming Bishop’s Crooksville [Brooklyn Eagle]
Why do we put up with this fake history just because the building stock is historic? We live our contemporary lives in the midst of some very beautiful architecture with historic value. So preserve these buildings but adding “neo-historic” street amenities gives us fakery. I don’t want to feel like I live in some planner’s idea of ‘ye olde towne’.
New street lights yes, but a simple contemporary design would be so much better.
Mr. Lafever, you are the only one around here with any sense of what’s right.
The new Bishop’s crook poles will be a lovely addition to the neighborhood. The old aluminum poles are falling apart and need replacement anyway. I’m all for this. It is the right thing to in the City’s very first Historic District. The “blue-haired ladies” really started a trend back in 1965 with that historic district thing.
I think there’s a lot of “flogging the bishop” that goes on anyway in BH so these bishop’s crook lights are appropriate.
lol.
That’s not a hooker, that’s Björk in a swan corset.
Bjork and light posts all in one day. I am not sure I can take all this
“They are beautiful, they enhance the neighborhood, and they are consistent with the history of the Heights,â€
So we should soon be expecting hookers dressed in appropriate period outfits standing under them?
Affordable housing – that’s great.
Now, is 110k for a one bedroom in very far out East New York that far below market value that this is a good deal?