Atlas Obscura
Gas Street Lamps of Brooklyn Heights in Brooklyn, New York
Gas street lighting was once widespread in nineteenth-century cities on both sides of the Atlantic. With the rise of electrical street lamps at the end of that era, gas lamps were gradually removed or replaced. Hence, finding any gas street lamps anywhere in modern American or European cities can be quite extraordinary. New York City has retained a couple of its historic gas street lamps, but t…