March 15, 2005
Dumpster diving for shards of the Flatiron Building
Teresa Nielsen Hayden happens to work in the Flatiron Building. A few days ago she happened to be on one of the top floors, where she got close to the workers repairing the ornate terra cotta adorning the historic building. I opened the window, stuck my head out, and mustered up enough Spanish to say “Can I have one of those? I just want it for my garden.” They gave me a nice corner of a column. They’d have given me the entire bottom half of one, but I couldn’t possibly have carried it. But wait, it gets better.Today I noticed a very large dumpster full of broken masonry sitting at the curb on the east side of the building. I went and poked around, and sure enough, there were some more nice fragments from those columns. I snagged a half-dozen, most of which have now been given to other Toroids to use as bookends or garden ornaments.
If you’re the scrounging sort, are in New York, and would fancy a historical bit of ornamental terra cotta, the dumpster’s on the east side of the building. Act now. UPDATE: A Curbed reader reports the getting's not so good now.
March 15, 2005 11:20 PM in Architecture
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