A List Of Things Thrown Five Minutes Ago

TO BE FOLLOWED BY AN APPRECIATION OF THE MOST EXPENSIVE, EXPANSIVE PIECE OF INTERSTATE THEY EVER MADE: The NYT says nice things about Philadelphia City Hall. Among the superlatives:

Its 548-foot tower — surpassing all the cathedrals of Europe — is topped by the largest statue on any building, anywhere: a 37-foot-high William Penn, the city’s founder, standing as tall as a town house. It is said to have the largest clocks on any building; it would loom over Big Ben.

With about 27 acres of floor space, this behemoth is bigger than every other municipal seat in the nation, all 50 state capitols and the national Capitol. The American Institute of Architects called it “perhaps the greatest single effort of late-19th-century American architecture.”

However, there is still that issue about the Curse.