I'm not falling for one of them big city sidewalk gags again!
-jc
Met History wrote:
> "In 1983 the [Frick] museum [at 70th and Fifth Avenue in NYC] received
> permission from the Landmarks Commission to jackhammer up its magnificent
> 1914 bluestone sidewalk. They replaced the huge flags with much smaller
> Canadian granite stones that the museum said would be "easier to maintain"
> [NYT RE Posting, August 14, 1983]. The Commission stated that the sidewalk
> was not a special characteristic of the Landmark."
>
> Any of you grizzled veterans have an inside story on what displeased the
> Museum about its bluestone?
>
> Christopher Gray