Inside one man’s crazy plan to create Broadway’s version of Woodstock in upstate New York — including a ‘Rent’ reunion

The Hutton Company Brick Works literally built New York brick by brick. For over a century, thousands of brickmakers mixed, molded, dried and baked the city’s most essential building blocks on a 100-acre site along the banks of the Hudson River, in the city of Kingston. Look inside the walls of the Empire State Building, Grand Central Terminal, the Cloisters and many other New York landmarks, and you will find a brick bearing the Hutton stamp.

The kilns went cold in 1980, and the yards sat in ruins for decades. But when Broadway enthusiast Joshua Saltman first saw the old brickyard, he knew this was the missing block for building his own…

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