So that's what that tower on Staten Island is!
2018-07-24 06:07:40 ET

https://www.silive.com/eastshore/index.ssf/2010/01/cell_tower_has_become_a_beacon.html

For years I thought it was a guard tower. Turns out:

"The history of the 130-foot radio and cell phone tower three blocks from the intersection of Ocean Terrace and Todt Hill Road traces back some 40 years to a Todt Hill resident and communications pioneer who helped develop the clear, static-free signal known as FM radio.

The late communications entrepreneur Frank Gunther almost immediately stirred controversy in Todt Hill when he moved his odd-looking radio tower from Yonkers to a site behind his home on Highpoint Road in 1967."


2018-07-24 21:28:16 ET

I was just reading this a few months ago. It's also a nice reminder that I should get a real antenna set up already. And probably get my license too

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