Unhappy Ending for Sidewalk
It looks like the sidewalk on Washington Avenue was, unfortunately, not repaired with bluestone. We’re kinda curious whether this was a financial decision or whether the mere size of the roots made it impossible to lay newly cut slabs down. Certainly ain’t much to look at, is it? Anyone know? Beware the Wrath of the…
It looks like the sidewalk on Washington Avenue was, unfortunately, not repaired with bluestone. We’re kinda curious whether this was a financial decision or whether the mere size of the roots made it impossible to lay newly cut slabs down. Certainly ain’t much to look at, is it? Anyone know?
Beware the Wrath of the Tree Roots [Brownstoner]
about 15-20 yrs ago the city torn up all of the pavement on greene av. from fulton (in fg) to bedford av. in fg and clinton hill people were encouraged to buy bluestone, past grand av. the city put down regular concrete. someone sued and iin the end thr fg and ch folks on greene were reimbursed for the bluestone (it was free) and those from grand to bedford received reg. concrete.
Please keep your sociopsychobabble to yourself, when you buy a brownstone and have to cough up the dough to replace the sidewalk then your opinion counts, but as an armchair PC renter who cares what you think
Huh? Please speak English.
Uh, Brooklyn IS an Applebees town.
Of course three separate posters who disagree with the politically correct position are the same poster. No disagreement allowed here.
Anon 10:08, 11:36, and 2:09 (who may all be the same person) obviously you either don’t understand or care about preserving the city’s fragile historic buildings and streetscapes. Fortunately, a few people do, and are willing to work their asses off (and spend a ton of their own money) trying to do it. Since you think these issues are so trivial, perhaps you’d be happier in some Applebees town like Scottsdale? Go for it.
there is only so much time and energy people have to worry about stuff like this. and this is coming from someone who checked a site like this regularly. think about how little the rest of the population cares.
When you take into account the expenses ‘Present value’ even over the long-term it is still much more cost effective to replace Bluestone with concrete.
Bluestone is only prohibitively expensive in the short-term thinking way of modern economic theory. Bluestone, like high quality housing, trains, etc, requires a significant up front investment but that investment lasts for well over a century.
Conrete sidewalks are cheap to put in, but have to be replaced constantly.