Rewind: The Mystery of the Central Park Obelisk
The Bowery Boys: New York City History
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The Obelisk of New York
The Egyptian obelisk was given to the city of new york. A gift like that, if it was granted to the us, would have to go through congress. So i think they pulled some strings and just had it directly gifted to new york city congress. It's like it's who can imagine such aso imagine where that opelis could have wound up? Well, i mean, washington dec had to build their ownand that's right. This might have been a very improbable task, if not for a very wealthy gentleman,. william vanderbilt, who stepped in and donated 100 thousand dollars to the cause.
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