History mystery: Who left symbol in NYC building?

[snopes]

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.

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. Once part of a warehouse, it now does nothing but raise questions.

Painstakingly preserved from a 175-year-old building in lower Manhattan, the brickwork symbol is part of a tantalizing historical whodunit. The setting conjures both New York's mercantile past and its future, and those who may be involved include a prominent, deeply Christian businessman.

http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/art...ry23-buzz.html

[Bassist]

Okay - I confess.

I did not leave that symbol for others to discover. It was not me. No matter what my "friends" may try to tell you.

Also, I did not have sex with Monica Lewinski. Just for the record, mind you.

Glad to have gotten that off of my chest ...

[Eddylizard]

It's an early, but long since forgotten ancestor of the Hazmat system. Put there for the benefit of the warehouse staff.

In a few weeks or months, the investigators will start to realise what they were dealing with.

It's quaint what you colonials consider history.

[Nick Theodorakis]

Originally Posted by lazerus the duck

It's quaint what you colonials consider history.

There's a quote that says something like, "An American thinks 100 years is a long time, and an Englishman thinks 100 miles is a long distance."

Nick

[Le Chevalier Blanc]

Once part of a warehouse, it now does nothing but raise questions.

I vote fake - it's obviously viral marketing for "National Treasure 2".

No need - I'll get it.

[Don Enrico]

"Whether you believe in this stuff or not, it suggested so much and pointed to so many things," said Alan Solomon, a historian who pushed to preserve the symbol and probe its meaning.

Well, it's three three-pointed symbols. Of course it points to a lot of things (to nine things, to be exact).

Do you still need that fish?

Don Enrico

[UEL]

It reminds me of when I was a kid, and am seeing my kids doing, when building with Lego.

"Let's see what pretty designs I can make with the blocks".

It may be a case of us looking for symbolism where none was meant to be.

[Ana Ng]

I blame Hyper Squirrel.