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Re: The Frick's bluestone sidewalks - RIP
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John Callan <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 23 Mar 2000 21:33:06 -0600
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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

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