Good size bluestone - check out 218 E 18th St.   My favorite is SoHo
ranite  - 5' x 12' X 8"  but sometimes the librarians have a little trouble
setting them
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From: Met History <[log in to unmask]>
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Date: Sunday, November 14, 1999 8:01 AM
Subject: What is "a really good sidewalk"?


>I'm on the board of a library in Manhattan on East 79th Street (limestone
>facade,1918, designed by Trowbridge & Livingston as a private house,
>converted to a library 1937).   We need a new sidewalk, and I realized I
>wanted to make sure we got a really good sidewalk, instead of the crud I
>often see.
>
>But then I realized I didn't know the answer to this question:  What is a
>really good sidewalk.  Outside of bubble gum, any ideas?
>
>Christopher Gray
>
>(PS Ralph:  don't worry - we're leaving room for planting beds for the
ivy.)
>