Berlin Wall pieces in New York

New York received the first complete elements shipped officially to the United States: two segments carrying a Kiddy Citny heart, landed in January 1990 under the contract between the GDR's trade company and a New Jersey contractor, used in a wall happening in the harbour that February, and shown on the museum ship USS Intrepid. The city then lost track of several pieces. The heart was sawn in two to make a sale, and its left half went back to its owner in 2006, into a store in New Jersey; the five Noir and Citny panels that stood in the courtyard at 520 Madison Avenue were removed in 2015 and are in a depot in Connecticut; the section at the Times Square Ripley's has gone wherever the attraction's closure took it. What can still be seen is the pair of Potsdamer Platz segments at Battery Park, handed over after a Juilliard concert in 2004, and the three Leipziger Platz slabs in the United Nations garden, given to Kofi Annan in 2001, in a garden generally closed to the public.

Upstate the pattern is quieter: a fragment at Colgate, a section behind the science museum in Syracuse, one outside the justice court at Stony Point, and at Hyde Park Edwina Sandys's BreakFree, the figures cut from her Fulton sculpture, in the Freedom Court of the Roosevelt library.