Residents of New York's Tipperary Hill say the town's green-over-red traffic light is the most Irish traffic light in the world.
In the early 1820s the small neighbourhood in downtown Syracuse was named after the home county of many of its new inhabitants.
Legend suggests the Irish immigrants in Tipperary Hill were unhappy when the area’s first traffic lights were installed at a busy intersection on the corner of Tompkins Street and Milton Avenue.
Local Irish youths reportedly objected to the ‘British’ red light above the ‘Irish’ green light.
They began throwing stones at the light until authorities eventually gave in, and agreed to put the green light on top for good.
