New York's Newfangled Crosswalk Signals?

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Usually when most New Yorkers are crossing the street, we just look for oncoming traffic and cross - only occasionally looking at the crosswalk signals. Yesterday, Gothamist was walking to work when we looked up at the crosswalk signal and spotted something different. After doing a double-take, we realized that the signal was different than the ones that were introduced a couple of years ago. While the sign still had the red "don't walk" hand and the white "walk" man, they were presented in a different way: Instead of having the lights shaped like the man and the hand, the two symbols were screened onto the plastic surface of the signal.

We took a quick look at the rest of the signals in the intersection and on our remaining walk to work, but those were all normal. Has anyone else seen these signals, or is this one just an anomaly?

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Probably an anamoly like the skinny man ones at Columbus Circle... New York's newfangled ones will likely have countdown timers.

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I was wondering, does anyone really care about this?

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was this at 2nd ave and houston?

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the one on houston was doctored nicely to throw the goat: \m/

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They are LEDs not "lights" and no I haven't seen this before. It could be an in service DOT test.

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LEDs still emit light, no?

and this light was in brooklyn.

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You guys are just fucken stupid

Flashlight nerds, what can one say?
The nerdiest kind.
My light is brighter than your light?

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