New York Lighting

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Thomas R Skelton (1928-1994) is one of the most renowned commercial lighting designers in New York, teaching at Yale University, New York Studio, and Stage Design Forum. Like Rosenthal, most of his work is in the world of dance. He is designed for the American Ballet Theater, Joffrey Ballet, New York City Ballet and Ohio Ballet. Like Stanley McCandless at Yale University, he developed a "way" to light the dance scene published in the 1950s. "Method" of Thomas "Kelton" was published in dance magazine as "Dance Stage Manual" from October 1955 until December 1956. His mention to luminaires is outdated, but the technology he outlined is still valid. Link to the electronic version of the manual hosted by University of Minnesota Duluth

The relationship between New York and Neon has a long history. After the success of the European LED lighting test by helium in the early 20th century, Neonlight went over to the American city beyond the Atlantic Ocean. As Thomas Rinaldi wrote in his 2013 New York Neon, by the 1930's the neon sign was "almost inevitable in the streets of New York". After the heyday of the 20s and 30s the neon lights in New York City began to become less common. Together with the American pop culture after the Second World War, the new technology of the sign often brought annoying business, the collapse of the city and neon light, bringing about a sharp decline in neon lights in the mid-20th century. "The light of neon is a rusting, metaphor of a faded city," Christoph Ribbat wrote: "Blinking light: the history of neon"