Excavation

Our Boerum Hill neighbors are building a parlor floor deck and digging out their garden for a foundation. Their contractor unearthed some circular, “well”-looking thing (see picture) about ten feet from their back wall, and about ten feet below current grade. They unearthed the outside of a similar circular brick wall along our shared property…

While renovating our garage, we found a box of large conch shells in ashes. Does anyone know if this was used for a specific purpose or just a shell collector? Our house is from around 1840-50s. Thanks

We have several bags of dirt from work on our back yard…but no matter how light we make the bags the weekly garbage pick-ups continue to refuse to take… Its not enough to rent a bin (probably 10 bags around 50-60 pounds each), can anyone recommend a pick-up service or drop off location in Brooklyn?…

After identifying a “bad lead” as the source of electrical issues in our 2 family brownstone on a landmarked block, Con Ed has decided to run new service to our building as they could not snake a new line from the street nor could they do so originating from the house to the street. I…