Horse barns from that era, converted into two-story homes, can also be found in the Belgian-block-paved alley known as Washington Mews.
The poor live above, the rich below; the great social divide separates "the Asphalt", with its apartment blocks and paved roads, from "the Hill", a collective term for the city's densely packed informal settlements.
The group, known as the Coordination for the Protection of the Bois de Boulogne and its Surroundings, has a simple argument: the park is intended for the public, the museum is next to a children's playground, and the building itself violates the rules governing the park by blocking a paved roadway that should be open to the public.
Residential houses in the urban areas are grouped closely together and arranged in blocks with paved or graded road access.
It was a time when if a white person walked down the one paved block in town, any negro on the street had to step aside and walk in the gutter.
In general, the structure of top layer is usually single discrete blocks, typically accropode blocks, four-leg square hollow blocks and barrier boards, and also acropode, riprap, paved rock blocks or concrete slabs where with smaller waves.
Cayuga, a stubby, block-long strip, is paved partly with flagstones and ends at a community garden fringed with towering shade trees.
The area was almost completely deforested by the time of the Revolutionary War, and those meadows and spring creeks are now paved city blocks.
At the First St. end it is paved with Belgian block; the rest in gray asphalt.
As tourist management intersects with the daily life of the nation's fifth-largest city, where 80,000 people live in the two-square-mile area called Center City, one clash in particular is instructive: the one over Independence Hall, on a thoroughfare paved with Belgian block, within shouting distance of delis and offices.
