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The Orange Light Trend Is Taking Over New York

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From the West Village to Williamsburg, the light from our windows has turned hues of marigold, poppy, and cantaloupe.

Windows glowing orange spotted across Brooklyn and Manhattan on evenings this year. Photo-Illustration: Curbed; Photos: Adriane Quinlan Sometime last year, my block in Crown Heights started turning orange. When the sun set, our windows burned in the apricot tones of the old sodium-vapor lamps. The shift began with one window (rental building, paper lantern), but the spread was swift — up and down the block, across the stately Queen Anne townhomes, and along the busy corridor where, on my nightly commutes home, I watched for shades of marigold and poppy, Werther’s Butterscotch and Gatorade. Fro

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