BRICK STREETS
Forgotten New York - The streets of New York City used to be paved with bricks. The term ‘cobblestones’ refers to uneven stones of varying shapes and sizes. This style of paving went out of style...
View ArticleMORE BRICK STREETS. In Bay Ridge; Red Hook; the West Village; and Brooklyn...
Forgotten New York - There are more streets still sporting their original brick or Belgian block pavements than you may think. There are still dozens, as a matter of fact… here are some of them. If...
View ArticleJUMEL TERRACE. Brick streets and landmarked historic homes in the heart of...
Forgotten New York - Jumel Terrace in Washington Heights is not only the home of some pristine NYC Belgian bricks, and is the former home of actor/singer/activist Paul Robeson, but is also dominated by...
View ArticleBANK STREET BRIDGE
Forgotten New York - Safety considerations have forced the demolition of a Staten Island bridge that had pretty much remained unchanged for the last forty years. It had its original railings,...
View ArticleJAMAICAN RED
Forgotten New York - In the heart of Jamaica, on a 4-block stretch of 89th Avenue between Jamaica Avenue and Sutphin Boulevard, there’s some gorgeous original red brick pavement that has never been...
View ArticleBLUESTONE AND SLATE SIDEWALKS
Forgotten New York - Before poured concrete became the de rigueur material for New York City sidewalks, they boasted unique slate bluestone plates that made a distinct hollow noise when trod upon....
View ArticleJAMAICAN RED-UX
Forgotten New York - It was way back in the pre-Forgotten New York era — about 1994 or 1995 — (I know that’s ancient history now that your webmaster is becoming ancient) — when I first saw block after...
View ArticleOLIVER PLACE, BRONX
Forgotten New York - ForgottenFan Dennis Harper recently found one of those rarest of birds in the NYC street paving canon — a red bricked street with a median shown by alternating bricks in white! I...
View ArticleWEST 230TH BRICKS
Forgotten New York - According to the late, legendary Bronx historian John McNamara, writing in History in Asphalt, West 230th Street in KIngsbridge Heights and Riverdale has had an active history. It...
View ArticleCLOVE & MALBONE: Crown Heights Leftovers
Forgotten New York - During my recent walk from downtown Brooklyn to Crown Heights, I was meandering down Montgomery Street when, just past Nostrand Avenue I spotted an odd little part-dirt, part...
View ArticleDUMBO’S BELGIAN BLOCKS under siege
Forgotten New York - Long before DUMBO became home to yuppies and became Eloi-ized, with its carousels and gourmet chocolate shoppe purveyors, it was one of Brooklyn’s hardest-working neighborhoods,...
View ArticleSACKETT, Gowanus
Forgotten New York - Sackett Street, which is usually found in the pleasant stretches of Cobble Hill and the increasingly tonified Park Slope, also has this dead end stretch off Bond, the at ends at...
View ArticleCENTRAL BRICKS, Bushwick
Forgotten New York - Meandering mindlessly in Bushwick a couple of years ago, I walked down the dead-end section of Central Avenue under the Long Island Rail Road elevated tracks. Here can be found...
View ArticleOSTERBURG WAY, Pittsburgh
Forgotten New York - I have often lamented the lack of named back alleys in New York City. Pittsburgh, PA fills the bill with hundreds of them, almost all called “ways.” This is Osterburg Way near...
View ArticleBRONX BRICKS, The Hub
Forgotten New York - Enough asphalt has worn away on East 151st Street between Melrose and Third Avenues to allow some of the old red bricked pavement to show through. Belgian blocks used to be the...
View ArticleRED BRICKED STREET, Mott Haven
Forgotten New York - photo: Gary Fonville Red bricked streets are now relatively rare in NYC, but that doesn’t mean they always have been; while they haven’t gotten the press time that “cobblestoned”...
View ArticleOLIVER PLACE, BRONX
Forgotten New York - ForgottenFan Dennis Harper recently found one of those rarest of birds in the NYC street paving canon — a red bricked street with a median shown by alternating bricks in white!…...
View ArticleWEST 230TH BRICKS
Forgotten New York - According to the late, legendary Bronx historian John McNamara, writing in History in Asphalt, West 230th Street in KIngsbridge Heights and Riverdale has had an active history. It...
View ArticleDUMBO’S BELGIAN BLOCKS under siege
Forgotten New York - Long before DUMBO became home to yuppies and became Eloi-ized, with its carousels and gourmet chocolate shoppe purveyors, it was one of Brooklyn’s hardest-working neighborhoods,...
View ArticleSACKETT, Gowanus
Forgotten New York - Sackett Street, which is usually found in the pleasant stretches of Cobble Hill and the increasingly tonified Park Slope, also has this dead end stretch off Bond, the at ends…...
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