The City has announced finalists for its City Lights Design Competition, which began in January in an effort to find "new ideas for public street lighting." The finalists are: Tim G. Culbert of Atelier Imrey Culbert; Ross B. Wimer of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Chicago; and Thomas M. Phifer of his own firm in NY. Phifer worked on Castle Clinton in some capacity.
Forgotten NY's NYC streetlamp page and a New Yorker Talk of the Town piece with Forgotten NY's Kevin Walsh about street lamps and the competition: "A proper familiarity with the street lamps of New York requires a sustained interest beginning at an early, pre-self-conscious agelong before the native disdain for tourists kicks in and, with it, the automatic, jaded lowering of the eyes, the tunnel vision."
