Brownstones

clipped from blogs.dailymail.com “In New York City at Central Park, there was 20.9 inches reported with this amazing storm. This was the 4th largest snowstorm in their long history that goes all the way back to 1869,” James Wilson, Lead Meteorologist, The Weather Channel, reported. You’d also find out that there were 3-million people, plus 1-million horses. (No elevators, yet. So buildings that were 5-stories tall had the cheapest apartments on top. They were called “walk ups.” Anyway, you just couldn’t rid the streets of all the horse dung. In time a lot of it would just be trampled down, hard. But not when it rained. Then, it just floated on top of the rainwater. And, entered homes. First floors were often flooded. Which is when architects decided to make the second story the first floor. So the idea of brownstones was born.