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Subject:
The Frick's bluestone sidewalks - RIP
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Met History <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:
BP - "Infarct a Laptop Daily"
Date:
Thu, 23 Mar 2000 21:13:19 EST
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"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

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