Experience the terrors of NYC traffic in the comfort of your own home
These classic New York Walk/Don’t Walk signs are being hawked by UK salvage operation Trainspotters. Presumably they’ll be snapped up by Londoners desperate to add a little urban grit to their sanitized, squeaky-clean lofts situated in shuttered, converted schools.
These 6.8Kg (15-pound) monsters were built to survive in NYC, so they’re almost unbreakable, constructed from cast aluminum and tempered glass. Surplus units have been available since 1999, according to Trainspotters, when the city started to replace them with versions using symbols not words, which were of course exclusive to anyone who can’t read English.
Trainspotters has fitted the lamps with a 3-meter (ten-foot) yellow cord and inline switch, and new circuitry inside makes them “flash at timed intervals,” whether it’s time to walk or not.
The price to re-purchase this iconic bit of America from the Imperialist English dogs? £925 ($1,500), plus shipping back to the colonies.
NYC Walk / Don’t Walk [Trainspotters via Core77]
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