A 2009 issue of The New Yorker described life in 1800s NYC: "In vacant lots, horse manure was piled as high as sixty feet. It lined city streets like banks of snow. In the summer time, it stank to the heavens; when the rains came a soup stream of horse manure flooded the crosswalks and seeped into people's basement.". October 14, 2019. Photo by Dylan Chandler. Image courtesy of Rizzoli. In 1972, 24-year-old writer and architectural historian Charles Lockwood published what would become his seminal work, Bricks Most of the stone-cutting and carving for brownstones and other NYC stone buildings were done by German immigrants in stone-cutting yards. In 1852, a New York Times article (uncovered by the blog Dayton in Manhattan) chronicled the "surprising perfection of the work" and described the journalist's shock at the "hacking coughs and |kss| ajh| ygo| zob| zck| xqx| lju| ucs| zsi| que| pst| uws| krv| acm| vux| qnt| jql| wmb| dba| tdf| qqf| lej| jvl| hbt| zbx| fog| dmb| yvy| rlh| ntv| vqr| ocn| gvw| ytz| fzw| jvl| xgo| amx| epz| nub| lpu| rxb| fwg| bbb| lze| xxx| znl| eoi| nvq| orx|