Monday, November 09, 2009

Prophecy




Above, cartoonist Frank Bellew's warning to New Yorkers. Better stop building those tall buildings, or else poor little Trinity Church will look ridiculous! And what about wind or fire?

Below, Trinity Church today. Oops.

Image is from Wikipedia Commons and is a link.

2 comments:

Bart said...

Isn't that funny? And the Manhattan of the etching looks positively quaint compared to the real thing.

Chris Bray said...

Ahh, dude. We were in NYC over the summer, and I never made it to Trinity Church. I totally wanted to piss on Alexander Hamilton's grave, dude. The Sadness.