Rewind: The Mystery of the Central Park Obelisk
The Bowery Boys: New York City History
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The Metz Collection
Egyptomania does not abate. It the star of the twentieth century, in a hu eburst off interest. Cleopatra's needle has sat there low these many decades, but has been still very weathered. In two thousand 11, the needle was visited by the minister of egypt's supreme council of anti uites who accused new york of actually neglecting cleopatra’s needle. He wrote a scathing letter that said, if the central park consturgency and the city of new York cannot properly care for the obelisk, i will take the necessary steps to bring this precious artifect home and save it from ruin. So lheneed
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