We all know what traffic lights look like, right? The red light is on the top, meaning stop, yellow is in the middle and green is at the bottom to tell you when it’s time to go. However, in a neighborhood in one New York town, that’s been flipped on its head by the Irish residents’ hatred of the English.
Tipperary Hill in Syracuse, New York, was a big spot for Irish immigrants to settle in the 19th and 20th century. Coincidentally, that was also the time that traffic lights were becoming popular across the U.S. and the rest of the world.
The first traffic lights came to Tipperary Hill in 1925, with its red light at the top, yellow in the middle and green at the bottom, as had been…
