On the base of a sundial near the Citicorp Building. Maria Hernandez was an anti-drug community activist shot to death in 1989. Brian Watkins was a tourist from Utah stabbed to death in 1990 trying to defend his mother in a subway mugging. I can't find anything about Vincent C. McNeill (surveyor) or Joseph E. McGrath (educator); perhaps they were also killed around 1990, when the Citicorp Building opened.
Day 46
Mystery memorial
February 14th, 2012
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_E._McGrath — This could be our McGrath?
Could be. I loved his poem. Very sage!
but what is the new york connection.
[…] a photo of the sundial from several years ago on someone’s blog post here. The sidewalk around the memorial has been reconfigured now, and the sticky-uppy-bit of the sundial […]