This weekend I’ll be in Baltimore for a family reunion. It’ll be the first time that I’ve traveled with my mom as an adult, and the first time that my mom has traveled anywhere in quite some time. So the posts will be a bit sporadic over the course of the weekend . . .
The other day, I had an appointment to pick up a press card from NYC Media and Entertainment‘s Press Credentials Office in the David N. Dinkins Manhattan Municipal Building on Centre Street. Up until the other day, I had never been in the building — although I’ve passed by it countless times while downtown.
After picking up my press card, I exited the building’s south side, and was in the middle of 1 Police Plaza, when I came across Tony Rosenthal‘s 5 in 1. 5 in 1 is a 35-foot tall, 75,000 pound painted steel sculpture. Each interlocking disc of the sculpture represents one of the city’s five boroughs: The Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island. At the time of its installation in 1974, the sculpture was the largest metal public art sculpture installed in the city.
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