This ramp, a favorite of skateboarders, leads up to the memorial's elevated top level, a beautifully conceived half acre chunk of actual imported Irish countryside. This photo, taken with my iPhone, was set to shoot HDR creating a ghosted image of the boarder.
Last August Antoine Odom, 24, of Long Island, with the help of some “controlled substances” failed to notice the memorial, jumped a curb and crashed into the corner with his Chevy Impala. Five months later a low key memorial to Antoine in the form of a barricade and a sheet of plywood covers the scar. Someone should tell the governor and mayor to fund this repair.
The governor and mayor get top billing for approving the memorial. The artist, Brian Tolle, landscape architect, Gail Wittwer-Laird, and 1100 Architect who collaborated to create the memorial are listed in smaller type off to the side.