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The Gas Lamp Conundrum

Ah, Park Slope’s beautiful gas lamps. They harken back to a bygone era, though perhaps not the era one might suspect. Curious how much it costs to keep the (gas)lights on? Continuously running open flame lamps run up your gas bill about $200-$400 a year and emit

Gas Lamps

The Gas Lamps of Park Slope: A Surprisingly Short History

Those historic-seeming gas lamps? Maybe not so historic after all, reports DNAinfo’s Leslie Albrecht. Recently, a Berkeley Place homeowner asked Community Board 6 if he could install one outside his nearly 100-year-old brownstone. Because, you know, “old-world charm.” Except that technically, it isn’t: “They’re not historic and