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Originally Posted by Nowhereman1280
Cortlandt Corners? I wonder if this isn't a reference to the Cortlandt Homes designed and blown up by Howard Roark in The Fountainhead? I mean they were supposed to be in or around the Bronx and were a housing project. Then they were blown up and ended up a pile of rubble just like the lot Cortlandt corners now stands on once was.
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The Van Cortlandts are an old New York family, and were big landowners in the area that later became the Bronx. Many things in NYC are named after them. I don't think there was any conscious effort on the developers to make an obscure Ayn Rand reference... just a historical one.