Re-emerging:<br>An innovative force in New York sandstone
In 1995, a neighbor pointed out to Bellospirito that there was an old quarry on his land. "He took me up there with some friends who were quarrymen all their lives, and they showed me how to cut the stone with hammers and chisels," explained Bellospirito. "That's how I first started to mine this quarry. I cut a couple of palettes (1,000 square feet) by hand, brought it down to Long Island and sold it." And that was just the beginning.
To speed up the process, Bellospirito soon began to purchase equipment, starting with an automated saw with a 6-foot, 6-inch blade, and worked his way up to the 20-acre, 13,000-square-foot fabrication facility in operation today, which has the ability to produce 500,000 square feet of top-quality dimension stone per year.