Talk:Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument (Manhattan)

doors not been opened
A recent change to the article added the footnote that:


 * The interior was completely finished; its bronze doors have not been opened within living memory.

This is strange and certainly untrue. The strange part is the phrasing "in living memory". What does this mean?

But perhaps more to the point, it is untrue. First, the monument has one, and only one door. And second, the doors have been opened on many occasions; I have stood inside the monument at least three times. I used to visit it frequently, and sometimes during the summer it would be open, and I would go in.

-- Dominus 18:43, 27 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Your brief description of the interior would be valuable. --Wetman 21:02, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

I've never been inside of it, but I have noticed small stalactites growing on it.--RLent 21:09, 31 July 2007 (UTC)


 * There is a photograph of the interior at . Someone should ask Mr. Minn for permission to use his photographs. —Dominus (talk) 15:25, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

Setting for Events and Films
Perhaps someone knows of other events and films that have featured this monument, but there are two that I know of:

1. Godspell (1973) - Parables of the Sheep and the Goats and Dives and Lazarus, where the monument represents Heaven.

2. Parting Glances (1986) Opening sequence where we first see two of the three main characters, Michael and Robert. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.23.165.130 (talk) 00:32, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

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Three Guns or Two?
The article mentions three civil war cannons twice and two civil war cannons once. I remember the Monument as a boy in the late 1950's (when it was open and you could walk inside) and there were two (2) large Rodman guns mounted there. Can anyone in the area confirm what is there? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.131.164.163 (talk) 21:56, 28 April 2021 (UTC)