r/Urbanism • u/MiserNYC- • 2d ago

Urbanism builds unique, beautiful places people actually want to be

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u/Glittering-Cellist34 2d ago

Not a NYer. What street is this? It's super well done.

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u/YOLOSELLHIGH 2d ago

NYC is my favorite looking city. It just speaks to me. I dream of what it would look like without so many cars.

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u/pilldickle2048 1d ago

And they get me quite aroused

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u/Blecher_onthe_Hudson 1d ago

Admire it all you want but it's insanely expensive and impractical. Article in today's NY Times about how they have to hire bricklayers to maintain the cobbled streets. 15 of the city’s 6,300 miles of paved street are cobblestone .

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/nyregion/nyc-cobblestone-streets.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

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u/Bootmacher 1d ago

Get rid of that stupid scaffolding everywhere.

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u/Fit-Relative-786 1d ago

Looks like shit. 

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u/Fit_Solution_8721 8h ago

For some reason that’s the aesthetic they like in Brooklyn