Haverstraw bricks built NYC
32 sec · Rockland Secrets
Rockland helped build New York City. 🧱🗽
A lot of NYC's bricks came from right here in Haverstraw.
Haverstraw had the clay. The Hudson was the road to market.
By the 1880s there were more than 40 brickyards along the river.
Rockland wasn't just where people moved from the city. It helped build it.
Credits
Music: "The Builder" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Photos: Brooklyn Bridge & Lower Manhattan by Jakub Hałun (CC BY 4.0); Orange Street, Brooklyn Heights by Beyond My Ken (CC BY-SA 4.0); Haverstraw Bay Park by Roadgeek Adam (CC BY-SA 2.0); Brooklyn Heights townhouses by Rickbern (CC BY-SA 3.0), all via Wikimedia Commons.
Map: Rockland County with Haverstraw highlighted by Rcsprinter123 (CC BY 3.0, recolored).
Public domain: Haverstraw brickyard stereograph, c.1924 (Keystone View Co., Library of Congress); Haverstraw postcards, c.1906 (Souvenir views of the Hudson River); New York skyline, c.1902 (Irving Underhill, Library of Congress).
