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City Finally Replaces Light Bulbs in Columbus Park After Months of Darkness

Posted November 14, 2018 at 5:05 am

Something as simple as changing light bulbs got caught up in the city bureaucracy. Nevertheless, after an extended period plunged in darkness, Columbus Park in Chinatown is back under the lights. The city last week installed LED bulbs in a majority of the eighteen light poles dotting the park. This was the task, strangely, of […]

Lights Out: Columbus Park is Plunged into Darkness

Posted November 1, 2018 at 5:00 am

Finding yourself in Columbus Park after nightfall might require the purchase of a flashlight. Indeed, nearly every light pole is out. There are approximately eighteen light fixtures that dot this heavily utilized Chinatown park, twelve of which are situated along Bayard Street. In the lower part of the park (near Worth), a single light burns. […]

About Those Ai Weiwei Lamp Post Banners All Over

Posted October 9, 2017 at 5:10 am

Ai Weiwei continues the urban takeover. Aside from new installations last week, the dissident artist also imparted two hundred banners to line area light poles. As part of the “Good Fences Make Good Neighbors” public art project, the two-dimensional, hole-punched banners that feature portraits of immigrants from different eras, among them historic images from Ellis Island […]

Tricks of the Trade: Bogart Bowery Power

Posted June 22, 2012 at 6:28 am

That old-school street ingenuity reminiscent of early hip hop still surfaces every now and again. Like yesterday morning on the Bowery. Caught on the Bowery without a phone charge is no problem. Just head over to the second lamppost just south of Prince Street and steal a little juice from the city. The screw-in flap […]

Light Pole Swap Along Allen Street

Posted April 18, 2012 at 6:09 am

The on-again-off-again capital works project for rehabilitating the battered Allen Street Mall is still a few furlongs from the finish line.

CB3 Approves Essex Street Lighting Plan

Posted January 27, 2012 at 6:09 am

Despite outcry from the Essex Street Block Association, Community Board 3 roundly approved the Essex Street lighting plan proposed by the Lower East Side BID.

Lower East Side BID Proposing New Essex Street Lighting

Posted November 11, 2011 at 6:09 am

In an attempt to promote safety and neighborhood business in one fell swoop, the Lower East Side BID is proposing a new lighting scheme along the entire length of the Essex Street corridor.

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