Who left trangle-based brickwork symbol in NYC building, and why?
NEW YORK (AP) — A final thrust of the crowbar cracked the wooden crate open, and the architect, the anthropologist and the mortar expert leaned in to look at the oddity that had drawn them to an out-of-the-way warehouse on a glimmering spring morning. It was a 3-foot-by-10-foot section of timeworn brick wall, its predictable rows abruptly interrupted by three distinct, deliberate-looking triangular shapes. Though once part of a warehouse, it now raises nothing but questions. Painstakingly preserved from a 175-year-old building in lower Manhattan, the brickwork symbol is — at least to some — part of a tantalizing historical whodunit. The setting conjures both New York City’s mercantile past and its future, and those who may be involved include the founder of a prominent American corporation. Could the design be a cryptic marker of mystical beliefs? A tradesman’s signature? A bit of architectural shorthand? Or a creative way to patch a hole? Speculation — some backed with scholarly a
