Sentence examples for vault light from inspiring English sources

Mr. Tarantino said that New York City Transit was working on designs for vault light installations for the mezzanines at the West 110th and West 116th Street stations on the No. 1 Broadway line in Manhattan.

A refrigeration system hummed, vibrating through the vast raw-brick vault, lighted amusingly with chandeliers.

BY that time most of the vault lights had been removed.

But there are no vault lights; the glass inserts were canceled after the concrete had been laid.

Cost-cutting and maintenance issues prevented the installation of vault lights in the Times Square subway station a few years ago.

In many cases, the vault lights were replaced with the steel vents now visible near many stations.

The subway vault lights were developed by the American Luxfer Prism Company of Chicago, which also sold transoms and projecting canopies with ridged glass to refract light inside.

Mr. Tarantino, New York City Transit's chief architect, said that cost-cutting and continuing concerns over maintenance of vault lights had eliminated them from the 72nd Street project.

But that's where it will stop, even though vault lighting was used extensively in the 1904 control house, both inside and out.

A 1904 commemorative book, "The New York Subway," noted that vault lights were used in more than half of the 34 stations: "At 20 of the underground stations it has been possible to use vault lights to such an extent that very little artificial light is needed".

Photographs of stations in those days show great banks of sidewalk vault lights casting natural light onto the platforms directly below; presumably the platforms sent a soft glow to the streets at night, when artificial lighting was used.