NOTA BENE

Lit From Within; The Fire This Time; Meet Me in Astoria; Obscene!

By NINA C. AYOUB

From murky gas lamps to frenzied neon, from Luna Park to the "Great White Way," New York has long been a city adorned in light. In America, gaslights arrived first in Baltimore, notes William Chapman Sharpe, but Gotham soon followed. By the late 1800s, New York had a "nocturnal semiotic arsenal...

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