I love New York City, exploring and all that, camera in hand, maybe some coffee too, sometimes with some good friends. I worked on a hobby/project for a while related to the street signs in New York, and I learned so much about the historic districts, the history of the signage itself, the branding of the city with the fonts and colors and how the signs are always evolving… And forget about the NYC Subway – it is a classic case of signage, fonts and identity done well.

So I can’t help but notice things like this – signage on pieces of the city. This lamp post faces the harbor down in Battery Park, looking out over the water to the Statue of Liberty. I love the textures – the worn metal, salt sprayed, the years of scraping and repainting… The letters are on the base of the lamp post, and this particular one is a late 20th Century model of the Type B Historic style introduced in 1911 in Central Park and then added to other parks and pedestrian walkways. See what a little research can uncover?

And I have never seen the particular way the city name is spelled out – N.Y. City – with some interesting spacing between the letters and periods.

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