Description
Stone Street is one of the oldest streets in New York, a short cobbled lane in the Financial District, a few steps from the Wall Street towers. Its two pedestrian blocks are lined with restaurants and bars in 19th-century brick buildings.
In summer the tables spill out onto the cobblestones and the street becomes one long outdoor dining room, packed with office workers after hours. At its eastern end stands 1 Hanover Square, an Italianate brownstone from 1854 that once housed the New York Cotton Exchange.
In 1658, when this was still the Dutch town of New Amsterdam, the residents paid out of their own pockets to pave it: it became the colony's first cobbled street, and in 1794 the paving gave it its name.
Most of the old houses burned in the Great Fire of 1835. The stores and lofts for dry-goods merchants built after it, long neglected, were restored at the end of the 20th century.
In summer the tables spill out onto the cobblestones and the street becomes one long outdoor dining room, packed with office workers after hours. At its eastern end stands 1 Hanover Square, an Italianate brownstone from 1854 that once housed the New York Cotton Exchange.
In 1658, when this was still the Dutch town of New Amsterdam, the residents paid out of their own pockets to pave it: it became the colony's first cobbled street, and in 1794 the paving gave it its name.
Most of the old houses burned in the Great Fire of 1835. The stores and lofts for dry-goods merchants built after it, long neglected, were restored at the end of the 20th century.