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Well, I'm new here, and you can find out all about me on the "new member page," so I won't repeat myself, except to say that I'm a fourth-generation New Yorker. I grew up in an apartment building that had a genuine bishop's-crook cast-iron lamppost on my corner, another down the block, and three more two blocks away. I agonized as a small child when the one on my corner was demolished, and as an older child when the three more two blocks away met their fates. The one down the block evaded the Department of Transportation's dismantling torches and was landmarked. In a burst of sanity, New York landmarked 77 surviving lampposts, which did not save all of them -- the elements and careening trucks knocked some of them down -- and began erecting fiberglass replicas across the city, usually at the request of community boards to enhance the quality of life and property values. I found out that the originals were only 18 feet high, and the federal DOT mandates that lampposts be 18 feet high, for greater safety, so the new ones are 30 feet high. Here's a link to five historic examples, from Ephemeral New York (a good site for city fans): 5 Historic Lampposts in NYC - Untapped New York (untappedcities.com) There is actually a catalog of New York's cast-iron lampposts, and there were originally 104 styles! About 20 examples are left from the catalog. This site has a lot about New York's cast-iron lampposts, too. You searched for lampposts - Forgotten New York (forgotten-ny.com) I'd be interested in knowing how one could reproduce these lampposts, particularly for intersections of major roads. Here are a few:
