O&R, Clarkstown Complete Streetlight Sale

O&R and the Town of Clarkstown today completed the town’s purchase of 3,912 overhead streetlights from O&R at a cost of $658,585.

The sale, which becomes effective Saturday, includes the actual streetlight fixtures and bulbs. The sale does not include the utility poles on which they are installed. Those remain the property and responsibility of O&R. The sale also does not include approximately 1,570 streetlights in Clarkstown that are energized by O&R’s underground distribution system.

As a result of today’s closing, Clarkstown, on October 29, will become solely responsible for the installation, operation, maintenance, repair, replacement, removal, modification, inspection and condition of all the streetlights covered by this agreement.

To see if the streetlights on your street are managed by Clarkstown on October 29 and thereafter, please click on this link to view the list of Clarkstown-owned streetlight locations.

If your street is on this list, and you wish to request a streetlight repair or request a new light, call the Clarkstown Highway Department at(845) 623-7500.

If your street is not on this list, your streetlight is owned by O&R. If you wish to request a streetlight repair or request a new light, call O&R at 1-877-434-4100.

Photo: Clarkstown Supervisor George Hoehmann, left, and O&R President and CEO Tim Cawley, middle, sign a mountain of legal documents to close the sale of O&R’s overhead streetlights in Clarkstown to the town. O&R Assistant General Counsel Jack Carley, right, facilitates the process./ contributed