Meanwhile, EV Grieve reader Mark noted this. Several weeks ago, he spotted workers futzing with the building's cornerstone...
...and, a few weeks later, he noticed that the workers had actually removed the cornerstone... and then bricked up the corner space where it had been...
So where is the cornerstone now? Perhaps in the Architectural Salvage Warehouse?
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I would think that someone at Cooper Union wanted it.
It will be hidden from public view just like one of the eagles from the old penn station that is sitting on top of the new cooper union building. the eagle is "public" but not publically viewable or accessible.
that's what happens when you allow corporations to take charge of public spaces and artwork.
There's some kind of metaphor lurking somewhere here in this little story about the removal of a cornerstone. Cornerstone refers not only to the base of a corner of a building, but also to an important quality something is based on...
What's funny about the anon comment as 12:18pm is that those penn station eagles were commissioned by the penn railroad company. I guess the lesson from anon is that we should never have let a corporation build penn station to begin with.
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