Friday, May 21, 2010

Here's your mystery block of concrete

Earlier today, EV Grieve reader Carl Bentsen mentioned a mysterious block of concrete that, uh, mysteriously appeared on Second Street and Avenue A... and he has now sent along a photo....



Any guesses?
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8 comments:

  1. AnonymousMay 21, 2010 at 8:45 PM

    They are sometimes called Roman Stones and I have seen temporary street lighting attached to them. They also anchor other things, so maybe it's meant to anchor something -

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  2. AnonymousMay 21, 2010 at 9:14 PM

    Hmm, I was just reading that there is a piano installation going up around the city, and that the pianos are going to be tied down by '90 lb cinder blocks'

    Could this be one of the locations?

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  3. AnonymousMay 22, 2010 at 1:32 AM

    A number of L/A/N/G/U/A/G/E poets live nearby. Perhaps they are branching out to Concrete Poetry? Or, perhaps, it's a concrete poetry incursion on the L/A/N/G/U/A/G/E poets? The Stone is very close, right? Hmmmm, maybe it's a L/A/N/G/U/A/G/E poet's concrete expression of something Stone related?

    Or, maybe it's one of those concrete boxes the city uses for small underground water valves? They just put a large one in De Colores Garden.

    Oh, it's hard to tell. Plumbing? Poetry? Who knows?

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  4. EliseMay 22, 2010 at 2:06 AM

    Who knows but I'm sure some frightened tourist will call in the bomb squad.

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  5. LisaMay 22, 2010 at 9:37 AM

    Or some young drunk will fall over it tonight and then sue the city for hundreds of millions of dollars.

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  6. AnonymousMay 22, 2010 at 11:00 AM

    Sign of the times: It's not tagged.

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  7. DollMay 22, 2010 at 1:09 PM

    Courtney Love?

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  8. AnonymousMay 24, 2010 at 1:13 AM

    Well, you know no one is living in it, or else it would have a wire going to a street lamp access box.

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