Sidewalk Grates

Man. if you ever have walked down Main Street in Sag Harbor, you may have noticed one or two sidewalk grates on the sidewalk. One is in front of Schiavoni's Market. Beneath the grate are a set of stairs leading into a basement of a particular store. Most are cemented over now, but up to the mid-sixties they were used by delivery men to bring food or other products into the basement of the store, from a truck parked on Main Street. I remember as a kid, the grates being up and delivery guys going in and out. Also a favorite past time was trying to hook onto a coin that had fallen down the grate. Nowadays the trucks park in the back of the stores, and the grates have been unused for many decades. Next time your downstreet check them out!
A old grate still remaining by Schiavoni's IGA