Heute haben wir den Central Park besucht und dabei auch diesen gefunden.

Team Mambone

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First try:
Cool.??

Second try:
Quite simply searched, found, finished ...

And now again right:
On our way from Leipzig on vacation to New York, Philadelphia, Washington DC, Niagara Falls, Cleveland, Toledo, Chicago, Sioux City, Badlands NP, Mount Rushmore, Bighorn Mountains, Cody, Yellowstone NP, Jackson, Grand Teton NP, Salt Lake City, Bryce Canyon NP, Lake Powell, Grand Canyon, Williams, Las Vegas, Mojave Desert, Los Angeles, Visalia, Yosemite NP, Modesto and San Francisco we came right here. Of course, we also wanted this one GeoCache / Benchmark on the To-Do list to pick up. And now there is a smiling face. There were no problems ... Yes, the destination fits. Thus: the end is good, all right ...

In other words:
Everything is there, where it belongs, undamaged and waiting for the next visitors.

Now we like to say:
Thank you for your GeoCache / Benchmark and another smiley on our map.

Greetings from Mrs. Lu and Mr. Lu

Mersi fir des Dous - Danke für die Dose - Thanks for that Cache- Merci pour la Cache - Dzieki za Cache - Grazie per questo Cache - Takk for at Cache - Obrigado por isso Cache - Gracias por el Cache - Díky za keš - Aciu už ta talpykla - Paldies par šo Cache - Aitäh selle eest Cache - ??????? ?? ?? ??? - Kiitos, että Cache - Tack för att Cache - Tak for denne Cache - Hvala cache - ???a??st? ??a t? µ??µ? cache - ???????? - Önbellek için tesekkürler - Köszönjük, hogy a cache - Bedankt voor de cache - Graças para o cache - Dankon pro la kasmemoron

[EN]

With Sahlinabac, Superpipoca and my mother.

[PT]

Com o Sahlinabac, a Superpipoca e a minha mãe.

[EN]

With Superpipoca, Bamiel and my wife.

[PT]

Com a Superpipoca, o Bamiel e a minha mulher.

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827 (1)

827 (2)

Saw the described spot on the step of the monument. We have been here many times before, this time we observed the unique benchmark as described.

During our trip through the central park we found this place.

found the corner of the lowest step on the southeast side of the statue

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Sherman monument

Found during my visit to NYC
I don't totally understand this type of benchmark but people seems to think it's ok. Maybe I am newbie?
Many thanks in any case.

This entry was edited by picarax on Sunday, 17 May 2015 at 13:45:16 UTC.

Found the Benchmark during our visit in NYC
THX
Mno2

Saw this one on this cold and rainy day just prior to getting on the Metro to head south.

Rock-6

wow- it's cold today, well, cold for NYC that is. Windy as all get out too- now, where did I leave my kite?

Thanks to PapaBear for his note of 11/15/2005, explaining the mistake in the description that references a brass plug that was never there. I can log this station as found, having seen the SE corner of the lowest step.

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827 - SE corner of lowest step

827 - pigeon perch on a sunny winter day

Found it on a nice place during our New York trip!

Found it during my business trip to New York, thank you and greetings from Germany :-)

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Benchmark NY - Central Park 1

Based upon what others have logged, I'll log it also. Corner was easy to find.

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KU1439

Found this one on our visit to Central Park.

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KU1439

Found it on a walk to the Central Park.

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KU1439

Found this one on the way to the Central Park.

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KU1439

Sherman is there- so's the step.

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Found this one during my walk through New York City.

Saw this on a caching trip to the city.

During our visit in New York I tried to find some of them an was successful at some places. This one on our way to central park.
Cheers from germany, avila99!

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The statue

Found during our most recent trip to Manhattan

Found location. as shown

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KU1439

KU1439

STATUE KU1439

I spent this afternoon in the NY Public Library and read through the volume [i]Precise Leveling in New York City[/i] by Frederick W. Koop, published in 1914. Mr. Koop was Assistant Engineer for the New York City Board of Estimate and Apportionment. From 1909 to 1914 he worked with a team of surveyors establishing benchmarks in the 5 boroughs of New York City. There are several chapters which outline goals, accuracy, methods, equipment and lastly there is are chapters giving a complete list of benchmarks for the entire city. I'm not sure of the total number since I only looked at Manhattan, but it's likely to be over 1,000 benchmarks. It should be noted that there were many other marks set by other city agencies such as the water department, sewer department and highway department in existance at that time, as well as a few bench marks set by the USC&GS in the city. But Koop's survey was the first to use consistant methods and datums for all 5 buroughs and for all city agencies. His work was considered of such quality that the USC&GS accepted is as a whole into it's national system of bench marks in the 1920s.

I was hoping to find documentation on another mark, but alas that belonged to another agency, but I did find this mark. Here is the original description:

[i]B. M. 827 - Fifth Avenue. The top of the southeast corner of the lowest granite step at the base of the Sherman monument at the Fifth Avenue and Fifty-ninth Street entrance to Central Park. The bench mark is 9 inches above the sidewalk. (Note 26, p. 91) Elevation, 53.161 feet"[/i]

Note 26 reads as follows:

[i]NOTE 26 -- A bench mark of this type is a point on a horizontal surface which was impossible for some reason to mark. This was usually the case when a bench mark was established on a polished granite surface, or in a conspicuous place."[/i]

So the 1952 entry on the NGS datasheet which stated that "the original description stated character of mark as being a brass plug" was wrong. Either they misread their source, or the description was corrupted between the original documentation (1914) and whatever secondary source that NGS used when making the 1952 entry. This explains why no brass plug was found when the 1952 team surveyed the mark, since there [b]never was a brass plug in the first place[/b].

[b]Bottom line:[/b] The mark is the top of the step. There is no brass plug or other mark on the step. I have therefore changed my previous entry to [b]Found[/b]

I submitted a recovery log to the NGS with the above information as a correction to the description on the datasheet.

[This entry was edited by Papa-Bear-NYC on Sunday, December 18, 2005 at 12:45:35 PM.]

The description is very clear: South corner of first step. I could not find it.