What's this new pole on my street??

it may be a vent for transformer located under the street. Such vents are often simply hollow pipes to allow heat out.

I'll bet it's a cell antenna. There's one in front of the Armory on 8th ave. I think it's the one that been broken for months causing all the trouble with ATT iPhone's in the neighborhood.

Hamilton.. that was not a good guess.

any attention whores gyrating spinning with the pole and ?

My guess is to communicate with aliens or summon Cthulhu. Either way, they probably will be discovered to be causing cancer in 20 years so you should probably just move now.

I've been wondering this exact same thing. I'll snap a pic later today.

yeah post a pic!!!

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4034/4718478889_11ea2f4466.jpg

There she is!

MOD NOTE: et voila...

I don't know what is crazier, the pole or the fact that I walk past it every day and have not noticed it.

stripper pole for giant ladies!

Don't tease us like that...

I might be able to figure out how to take a picture on my phone and upload it to flicker, but clearly, I need mod help to actually have it appear! haha

The only thing I can think of is that they are going to use "something makes heat." For example, the "bad fios" comes up one stub-up to the top of the pole.

It would then goes thru the thing that is going to be mounted at the top of the pole that will create heat and make it into "good fios".

Finally, the "good fios" will go into the ground thru the other stub.

By putting said magic device on a pole, they don't have to install one of those sidewalk grates that are always screwed up by stuff like piles of cigarette butts, standing water from rain, and caustic salt from winter snow removal. Grates need a surprising amount of maintenance....

Stuff on the top of poles might just need to be bird proof.

....electrical engineers think about such things, I'm optimistic someone will send me an honorary degree based on this post.

P.S. That's a serious looking pole. I guessed earlier that you had gotten a simple "vent duct pole thing", but would have never guessed that if I had seen the picture before making my guess.