I say you go in and tear up the floor.  If you don't find a telltale heart
there or a cask of Amontillado in the basement or a lot of black bird
feather up on top of the bookshelf you tear the place down (preferably with
die-no-mite--that always makes the evening news and has great entertainment
value).  This country needs a lot more lawyers more than it needs another
old building...

Signed, Edger Alien Who


>The Poe House is sturdy, unassuming four-story brick residence currently
used
>for office space by the NYU law school.  Its doorstoop was removed and its
>lower facade altered sometime in the early 20th century, but otherwise the
>building compares remarkably well with an early drawing showing the
original
>exterior.
>
>If any preservationists or historians can help in saving this historic
>building, please contact Michael Deas at (504) 524-3957, or by e-mail at
>[log in to unmask]  The assistance of the preservation community is
urgently
>needed to save this, the last surviving vestige of Edgar Allan Poe's life
in
>Manhattan.
>