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PHOTO OP: STREETLIGHT SMACKDOWN

March 13, 2015 | 9:08 AM - Updated on June 5, 2022 | 11:41 PM
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streetlight
8:15 a.m. Friday at the Southeast corner of 83rd street and Amsterdam Avenue.

Some days you wake up and the streetlights are lying on the ground with no obvious explanation. We’re investigating and will hopefully have an answer later today.

Update: As of 9:40 a.m. we heard that the light had been removed and a cone had been placed over the mount. The NYPD tells us a truck hit the light, and no one was injured.

Before we found out what happened, people on twitter made some guesses:

@westsiderag @NYC_DOT @HelenRosenthal @NYPD20Pct Been saying for a while that those double wide strollers are a menace . . .

— ursus arctos (@ursus_arctos59) March 13, 2015

@HelenRosenthal @westsiderag @NYC_DOT @NYPD20Pct Are people *this* angry that Popover closed??

— Horatio (@Bloomfeld) March 13, 2015

@westsiderag Just taking a nap.

— Ken Lupano (@KLupano) March 13, 2015

@westsiderag @NYC_DOT @HelenRosenthal @NYPD20Pct THANKS DEBLASIO

— Skylar! (@sssskylarrrr) March 13, 2015


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AC
AC
10 years ago

damn close , , , lucky it was the pole and not the scaffolding!

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JC
JC
10 years ago

Actually the pole gave up it’s life to save the scaffolding…

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Young Sally
Young Sally
10 years ago

Five too many Sangrias at Fred’s….and then a few more at Hi-Lite

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