Here’s a close up look of the remaining wood block sidewalk on West Street near Oak Street in Greenpoint. It’s likely the only remaining place in the city where you find a wood block sidewalk; this one stretched along the now-mostly-destroyed Greenpoint Terminal Market, which faced the East River on Greenpoint’s western shore.
Author Kate Christensen used the wood sidewalk for local color in her 2011 novel The Astral, which was set in Greenpoint, and she reportedly used FNY in her research.
8/22/13