Yesterday the New York Times ran an interesting piece on the closing of the last brownstone quarry, Portland Brownstone Quarries, which provides the material for New York City’s brownstones. Here’s a ...

New York City is renowned for its brownstone row homes, but across the Hudson River, Jersey City also has its share of buildings with the classic architectural facade, constructed from brown sandstone ...

This one-family Romanesque-slash-Renaissance Revival sandstone and brownstone in east Bed Stuy has been updated, though it still retains plenty of original details. Located on a block of Macon Street ...

Tucked away in an abandoned brownstone quarry, Dean Soucy maneuvers his backhoe pushing around huge blocks of stone. The 61-year-old Soucy has been moving earth since he was 17, but it took him ...

I will discuss six different rock types in this article, all but one was the product of major quarries in York County. With our diverse geology and variety of rock types, we do have a nice suite of ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Since the New York borough of Brooklyn was settled by Dutch colonists in the 17th century, it has been home to many ...