IN Forest Hills Gardens, Queens, a neighborhood with old-fashioned lampposts and Tudor houses, almost everyone knows the Kirby klan.

Everywhere Lark looked he saw greenery, and some random, shabby bit of charm-an old-fashioned lamppost perhaps, or a bit of iron balcony on the upper facade of a house behind its stucco store- front.

The set has been redesigned to resemble a stroll through a country lane, with old-fashioned lampposts, foliage and simulated ponds.

The street-with its cobblestones and newly budded trees and old-fashioned lampposts and tiny shops-looked like a prop for a model railroad.

As if on cue, snow began falling outside the copper-trimmed windows of the restaurant, big silver flakes that hung in glittering cones from Madison Avenue's old-fashioned black-iron lampposts.

She drew me under one of the old-fashioned lampposts and then out of the light.

It is closing streets to traffic, installing old-fashioned lampposts, renovating buildings and creating guidebooks in English to the area's tapas bars.

Dedications of 11 old-fashioned lampposts for the village, at a donated cost of $2,000 to $3,000 each, are woven into the ceremonies.

Strings of white lights festoon the island's pine trees, while evergreen garlands wind around old-fashioned lampposts.

Shop windows glowed warmly, and the old-fashioned lampposts looked cheerful, their golden Llight reflected on the freshly fallen snow.