Avenue C, corner of East 2nd St. Scene of a curious car wreck April 1986, I wasn't interested in the car but the car was part of my day because when it crashed into the lamp post it knocked the air raid siren off the platform on top of the post. I came along and happened to see the thing hanging by it's wires, so I made plans and the next day I rushed back with wire cutters and a hand truck around 6 AM or maybe 5 AM, climbed up the light pole and cut the wires. The siren fell down on top of the Dont Walk lights and tore them as an assembly off their mounting brackets (amazing I wasn't electrocuted) and I just climbed down, put the siren on the hand truck and away I went.

It was quite a bit bigger and heavier than it LOOKED way up on top of the pole, it looked like it was waste paper basket sized but actually it had a 5 horse power 3 phase 220 volt motor and was closer to a 55 gallon drum in size with it's cone shaped shroud! It weighed around 100 pounds.

By the time I took this photo the Dont Walk signs had been re-installed. The platform the siren was on can be seen along with it's electrical box below it right above the two yellow street signs halfway up the pole.