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Subject: Gaslights in New York City
Category: Miscellaneous
Asked by: nyproducer-ga
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Posted: 20 Dec 2004 18:39 PST
Expires: 19 Jan 2005 18:39 PST
Question ID: 445363

How many working gaslights remain in New York City, and what is the
street location and age of the oldest one still working?

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Subject: Re: Gaslights in New York City
From: alexmuse-ga on 22 Dec 2004 21:28 PST

Here is a good source of histoy of Gaslights in NYC:

http://www.nyc.gov/html/ddc/html/citylights/documents/materials/history.pdf

NYC did give a contract to Edison in 1884 to change out all of the
gaslights and replace them with arc lamps.  I suspect it took over a
decade to replace them all.

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