Monday, November 26, 2012

Why is 41 Cooper Square dented?

For some reason, I was standing around Cooper Union's 41 Cooper Square the other day. I was on the east side of the building that faces Shevchenko Place/Hall Place when I looked up and... well. Is that a dent?






There are perforated panels and there are dents. Can't say for sure how long that it has been this way. I couldn't find a good photo of this... here's a dent-free image via Google dated August 2011...


Anyway. Any ideas what may have caused this?

Updated 8:14

In an email, an EVG regular figures the building is being used for stealth intergalactic missions, and a piece of space junk dinged the building on a return trip. Seems plausible.
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16 comments:

  1. Alex in NYCNovember 26, 2012 at 9:05 AM

    http://thediplomat.com/flashpoints-blog/files/2012/03/Godzilla-400x266.jpg

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  2. AnonymousNovember 26, 2012 at 9:53 AM

    In my professional opinion, it looks like an alien spacecraft crashed into the side of this monstrosity.

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  3. Hey19November 26, 2012 at 10:18 AM

    Maybe its from flying debris during sandy? too boring, I know, sorry. Maybe, well, maybe some NYU girl hit the building w a Coors Light bottle. Something like that, its Monday.

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  4. esquared™November 26, 2012 at 10:24 AM

    I think that arrow made that dent, which is mind boggling since the arrow would've not been drawn if the dent wasn't there in the first place. Kinda like Terminator; if Kyle Reese didn't go back in the past from the future, then John Connor wouldn't have been born. I guess just part of this wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey, paradox stuff. Sorry, still digesting the turkey that I didn't have.

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  5. EV GrieveNovember 26, 2012 at 10:35 AM

    @ esquared™

    Well, I'm not sure that the arrow could have done this. We've had some severe budget cuts here, which led to a downsizing in the size/width of the arrows. Pre-budget cuts, maybe. Those arrows were pretty bulky!

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  6. esquared™November 26, 2012 at 10:43 AM

    Well from the angle of the arrow, and it looks like it's traveling at a considerable velocity, that arrow can make that impact and dent.

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  7. AnonymousNovember 26, 2012 at 11:15 AM

    It was that damn vigilante Spiderman! He's a menace to city!

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  8. THE NOTORIOUS L.I.B.E.R.A.T.I.O.N.November 26, 2012 at 11:59 AM

    Was someone swinging something out the window? So strange.

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  9. ACNovember 26, 2012 at 12:15 PM

    Warning shot from the Death Star.

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  10. danjayNovember 26, 2012 at 12:24 PM

    There's also a big crack in the front of the building that looks like some kind of accident to me as well.

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  11. Morgan TsvangiraiNovember 26, 2012 at 1:01 PM

    Warning shot from the Death Star.
    When has the death star ever fired a warning shot?

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  12. AnonymousNovember 26, 2012 at 8:44 PM

    The building is already so ugly, that I didn't even notice the "damage", and I live right across the street from it.

    - East Villager

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  13. AnonymousNovember 26, 2012 at 8:45 PM

    P.S. "Starchitects" must die.

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  14. AnonymousNovember 27, 2012 at 10:39 AM

    Don't you people know art when you see it?

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  15. AnonymousNovember 27, 2012 at 11:30 AM

    The roof of a water tank further down 7th street flew off and hit the building. The wooden wreckage of it was sitting on Hall Place beneath the dent that Tuesday.

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  16. EV GrieveNovember 27, 2012 at 4:34 PM

    @ anon 11:30

    That's what they WANT US to believe. It's a good cover story. Still have to go with something more plausible, like a hit-and-run with a TIE Fighter.

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