Rewind: The Mystery of the Central Park Obelisk
The Bowery Boys: New York City History
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Obelisks in New York City
There are three true obelisks in manhattan. The other two, although our new r o, they were constructed in the nineteenth century. One is a monument in saint paul's chapel that was placed in the 18 thirties for an irish lawyer named thomas adis emmett. He's actually buried in ireland. So this seems to be an empty obelisk with just a sort of monumental purpose, but no actual and that's odd little purpose, right? And so of course, in 18 81, cleopatra's needle was placed up in central park at 29 east of north - basically on the compass. They cut, so that cleopatra
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