Consolidated Edison said that it would finish checking for stray voltage at all manhole and service-box covers by the end of yesterday, but that it had inspected about half the city's lamp poles, and had handed over responsibility to the city to check the nearly 200,000 that remain.
One could see to read quite ordinary print by that cold clear light, and in the cities the lamps burnt yellow and wan.
One writer I met has a job counting the city's street lamps.
YANGON, Myanmar — Night can be very dark in Yangon, a city where street lamps, when there are any, flicker on and off with the uneven electricity supply.
[Global Wind Day, Americans for Prosperity] To combat light pollution, the Austin, Tex., City Council decides to spend up to $15 million to install LED lighting on about half of the city's street lamps.
Some customers try to siphon off electricity from the city by tapping into lamp poles -- a method that is difficult to catch because it is hit and run.
Even as the city delighted in its lamps, televisions, computers and other electronic devices, people continued to struggle with the shortage of water.
On a recent visit to the city, shopping for glass lamps he considered inspiring, Mr. Arbel began at the Flos store in SoHo, where his first pick was surprising: Taraxacum 88, a suspension lamp by Achille Castiglioni, is a classic piece, but its only glass is in its 60 light bulbs.
The city way has signal lamps and crosswalks, but the motorway has none.
