Dumbo’s landmarked Belgian-block streets are incompatible with accessibility laws, a new report has found. Toward Accessible Historic Streetscapes, from preservation nonprofit Historic Districts ...
The hand-cut Belgian block paving DUMBO’s historic streets — often mistakenly called cobblestones — are disappearing, either patched over with asphalt or dug up by utility contractors and carted away.
New York City streets are proverbially paved with gold, but in reality, they have been paved with everything from dirt and stone to iron and even wood. At the City Reliquary Museum in Brooklyn, a ...