Officials in the city of Richmond thought that nobody would notice when they installed new, brighter street lamp bulbs. But they were wrong. For her podcast Nocturne, Vanessa Lowe visited the neighborhood of Point Richmond and found that the neighbors were not happy.
They felt like they were at the Oakland Airport. Somebody said it felt like the Gulag. Somebody else said it was like Disneyland.
This piece was excerpted from the podcast Nocturne, a show about peering into the dusty corners of the night. You can listen to more episodes of Nocturne at nocturnepodcast.org. Nocturne is part of The Heard, a collective of sound-rich storytelling podcasts.