Marveling at the mystery of sandstone
December 3, 2015
A brownstone rowhouse in Brooklyn. More brownstones remain in Brooklyn than anywhere else in New York City. (Photo credit: Steve Strummer/Wikimedia Commons)
“From one grain of sand, I became a mountain.”
Those words are part of my tribute to sandstone in Sand to Stone and Back Again.
Beginning in the late 1800s, New York City began forming the same way a mountain range would, using a sandstone variety known as “brownstone.”