Historic Troy street gets ribbon cutting renovation
TROY -- An upstate city has restored one of its streets to the way it looked before the Civil War.
Washington Place in Troy is a 310-foot-long street that borders Washington Park -- one of only two privately owned and maintained parks of their kind in New York state. Manhattan's Gramercy Park is the other one.
This afternoon, a group called Friends of Washington Place is holding a ribbon-cutting ceremony to unveil the newly refurbished street, now restored to its original 1840s condition.
Neighborhood activists removed each of the street's 35,000 Belgian block granite pavers, restored them and then put them back in place by hand, one stone at a time.
The organization started the $200,000 restoration project after the street had fallen into disrepair.
