OHNY II - St. John the Divine etc

[Gulcrapek]

Front (minus the unfinished tower portion on the right)
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Jeebus

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Each carving is something different. One distinct one here is the molecular structure bottom center, probably added in the 1950s around Watson&Crick.
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On the other side, a cluster of skyline circa 1980.
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Sculpture garden and the side of the building

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A few blocks away I passed this , which was kinda amusing... there were others there, which were doing different things

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On the way back we figured why not go through DUMBO. Segment 2 of Brooklyn Bridge Park is now open, these are from there. It's connected to ESFF Park but I didn't take a photo of that.

Manhattan Bridge

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People
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Across the street. This is when my camera's batteries avenged that time I called it names.

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I never once in my life thought I'd be able to stick my finger in the East River. I still haven't, but I certainly could have if I wanted to. The rocks were kinda slippery right by the edge. This part of the segment is a 'pebble beach', accessible by a few steps, and right on the water. This is taken from the middle of it.

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Groovy.

My sister's friend's father was a junior bishop or something for the Episcopal Diocese of New York, so they lived on the Cathedral grounds. They moved to Minnesota when he became the bishop there. They always had interesting things going on in the Close when we went there.

[yanni111]

how come the cathedral was never finished? Will they ever do it?

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how come the cathedral was never finished? Will they ever do it?

They're always revising, adding to, or otherwise revising the design. Combine that with an eternal shortage of money and you have an unfinished masterpiece. The cathedral is already the largest in the world (St. Peter's in Rome, being only a church with no resident bishop, is the largest church in the world as opposed to the largest cathedral), and many people like to think of its state of incompletion as reflecting the ongoing miracles of God.