You can find these new streetlights right next to the old streetlights placed on Bank Street. The city says that’s done by design, to not compete with the old streetlights and the historic downtown.

But resident Donald Hudson, 65, said his block of Auburn Street in Rosedale Park was brighter lit and safer under the old city streetlights, even though they hadn't worked for five years.

Brighton, N.Y.— Updates are in store for nearly 100-year-old street lighting in Brighton. RG&E is replacing two streetlight circuits that have been in operation since the 1920s. The utility will ...