Most of the prints in a grid of 25 pinned to the wall, for example, show different bare-bulb ceiling lights.
The cache included the single-lamp ceiling fixtures from the lower concourse; two elegant, 37-inch-high, five-bulb sconces from the former waiting room on 42nd Street; a track indicator light from Track 13; and a six-bulb ceiling fixture bearing the tag, "D Hall, Oyster Bar Ramp, 2/27/97," which the police presumed to be the date of its removal.
THE house owned by Vera Scekic and Robert Osborne has dozens of green features, ranging from familiar energy savers (compact fluorescent bulbs; ceiling fans) to more esoteric devices (an exhaust fan to vent carbon monoxide from the garage).
(How many railroad workers does it take to screw in a light bulb?) The ceiling, and its celestial figures, fell dark for decades.
It comes packaged with a replacement bulb and ceiling mount and a three-year warranty.
Inside, the Yassos' efforts to conserve as much energy as possible include a high-efficiency heating system with 10 zones, radiant heat under stone floors, argon-filled windows, Energy Star appliances, carbon fluorescent light bulbs, and ceiling fans to reduce air-conditioning use.
There was only one light — a bare ceiling bulb — and it was extinguished every evening at seven o'clock.
I teased myself by blotting things out with both eyes open — a light bulb on the ceiling, most of an exit sign.
In the light of the ceiling bulb I saw my reflection, standing with a cloth over his shoulder and looking out at me as if ready to hurl himself into whatever the day might bring.
He also did his parents' Boston house, though his father's taste -- a single bare bulb on the ceiling of every room -- perhaps impressed on him the virtues of indirect lighting.
