Blue sidewalks

[Bay Ridge Tim]

How come you never see blue sidewalks anymore? Anyone know what I'm talking about? Uneven slabs of blue rock as sidewalk, instead of that poured concrete look.

[marcpsych]

How come you never see blue sidewalks anymore? Anyone know what I'm talking about? Uneven slabs of blue rock as sidewalk, instead of that poured concrete look.

Where did you grow up, in the Flintstones?

[Fallon]

This is the only blue sidewalk I've been on.

http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/3935/fuse011dz4.jpg

[Chigworthy]

Like big pieces of flagstone (or slate), or concrete with blue rock (The crushed shale they use for concrete base) pressed in the top?

The flagstone walks I see all the time, as I make them for people.

[landarch]

They're cool and all but pose tripping hazards and aren't ADA compliant. Towns don't like getting sued for things like that. On Cape Cod (and other places I guess) they do a wet lay of these and set them in cement. This keeps them level but it's expensive. Stoneyards charge upwards of $6 a square foot for the stuff.

Also, it's hotter in the summer than cement.

[LaBoob]

Yes, the town I'm living in now had slate sidewalks for years. They might've been the last town to have them. They made the big change last year when they finally took them out to put in modern sidewalks... I was sad to see 'em go because I used to play on them when my grandmother lived here.

[Bay Ridge Tim]

They're cool and all but pose tripping hazards and aren't ADA compliant. Towns don't like getting sued for things like that. On Cape Cod (and other places I guess) they do a wet lay of these and set them in cement. This keeps them level but it's expensive. Stoneyards charge upwards of $6 a square foot for the stuff.

Also, it's hotter in the summer than cement.

Yeah, they were definitely a tripping hazard. Walking down a sidewalk with them was kind of like a real life Super Mario Bros.

[Friday]

pretty

http://www.marzstone.com/client_images/natural-stone-2.jpg

there are actually neighborhoods in brooklyn looking to preserve some of the bluestone sidewalks.

i remember biking on cobblestones in Nantucket ... and that was before I had a bike with butt shocks. ouchies! but they look beautiful.

[IMSlacker]

I'm pretty sure The Blue Sidewalks is an Emo band. Mojo loves 'em!

[TooLowBrow]

pretty

http://www.marzstone.com/client_images/natural-stone-2.jpg

there are actually neighborhoods in brooklyn looking to preserve some of the bluestone sidewalks.

i remember biking on cobblestones in Nantucket ... and that was before I had a bike with butt shocks. ouchies! but they look beautiful.


i wasnt picturing this at all. i was remembering blue granite sidewalks. i think they had them in parts of nyc 30 years or so ago. 6 foot by 8 foot slabs of granite, linked to form a sidewalk.

[Mullenax]

That material must have made playing jacks intense and skinning knees a challenge.

[hurlmon]

There were plenty of them in the Bronx when moved out a few years back. W260th st off broadway has a few blocks of them on both sides. But most are uneven and have been lifted up/shifted from tree roots, so when the side walk needs to be leveled out for safety they usually just throw concrete in.

You do mean like this right (http://www.forgotten-ny.com/COBBLESTONES/slate/slate.html)

[Bay Ridge Tim]

There were plenty of them in the Bronx when moved out a few years back. W260th st off broadway has a few blocks of them on both sides. But most are uneven and have been lifted up/shifted from tree roots, so when the side walk needs to be leveled out for safety they usually just throw concrete in.

You do mean like this right (http://www.forgotten-ny.com/COBBLESTONES/slate/slate.html)

Yeah, kinda like that. I remember them being a huge pain in the button riding a bicycle on.

I went jogging today and saw a place that still has them. I'm going to take my camera out there in the next few days and take a picture.

[TheMojoPin]

Yes, the town I'm living in now had slate sidewalks for years. They might've been the last town to have them. They made the big change last year when they finally took them out to put in modern sidewalks... I was sad to see 'em go because I used to play on them when my grandmother lived here.

Jesus. How boring was that town that basically kids are running outside yelling "MA, I'M GONNA GO PLAY ON THE SIDEWALK!!!!"?

I miss the sidewalks that would light up as I danced on them and sang about an obsessive girlfriend I had who said I was the father of her baby. THE CHAIR IS NOT MY SON.

[PapaBear]

I miss the sidewalks that would light up as I danced on them and sang about an obsessive girlfriend I had who said I was the father of her baby. THE CHAIR IS NOT MY SON.

Correction: She wasn't your lover. She's just a girl who said that you were the one.

[TheMojoPin]

Look, I was distracted by a Joe Pesci with a topknot as I was turning ino a carrobotspaceship at the time, OK? CHAMON.