NYC’s first concrete building waiting to be restored
Patrick W. Ciccone reports for The Architect’s Newspaper. Set in Stone: How best to restore America’s first concrete building? American concrete begins in Brooklyn. The New York and Long Island Stone Contracting Company, formed in 1869, was the first U.S. company to produce concrete, and its headquarters, located at 3rd Avenue and 3rd Street in Gowanus, is the earliest concrete