A $108 million project to restore Dumbo\u2019s historic cobblestone streets and upgrade flood infrastructure has received one of the city\u2019s top preservation honors.<\/p>\n
The Dumbo and Vinegar Hill street restoration project won the 2026 Lucy G. Moses Preservation Project Award from the New York Landmarks Conservancy.<\/p>\n
Engineer Kevin Lin said the project restored 26 blocks of historic cobblestones throughout Dumbo and Vinegar Hill.<\/p>\n
\u201cWith the modernization of cars, we put the asphalt roadway down, so in order to bring back what Dumbo was at one point, we decided to remove all the asphalt and place all the cobblestones back in the original spots,\u201d Lin said.<\/p>\n
Crews removed, cleaned and returned more than 800,000 original stones to their streets.<\/p>\n
Lin said the work also included upgrades below ground, including larger sewers, to help prevent flooding in the neighborhood.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe also increased the sizing of sewers to prevent flooding in the neighborhood. There\u2019s a lot of high-rise buildings and it needs more capacity to sustain development,\u201d Lin said.<\/p>\n
Crews also uncovered about 2,800 artifacts during construction, including items dating back to the late 1700s.<\/p>\n
Archaeologist Mark Tweedie said one of the discoveries was a colonial smoking pipe.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe actually found, among all of the rubble, is this beautiful colonial smoking pipe. So this actually has an American Liberty eagle symbol on that dates to about 1820 to 1860,\u201d Tweedie said.<\/p>\n
Lin said being part of the project was meaningful.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt feels great to be a part of history,\u201d Lin said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A $108 million project to restore Dumbo\u2019s historic cobblestone streets and upgrade flood infrastructure has received one of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231149,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-231148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}