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Old Posted Sep 18, 2009, 10:09 PM
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Originally Posted by Nowhereman1280 View Post
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.
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.
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