‘Masons and obelisks in NYC’

    

“These Freemason Obelisks in NYC Align?!” is a one-minute video uploaded to YouTube yesterday, already garnering tens of thousands of views and thousands of likes, purporting to illustrate a linear placement of “Masonic obelisks” along a longitudinal stretch of Manhattan.

Mr. Ariel Viera, host of Urbanist, is not disrespectful nor sensationalist about this curio of a subject, and the production is lighthearted and edited for alacrity, but is his thesis correct?

Were the historic people he says were Freemasons actually brethren of the Craft? If so, would that be why the city erected monuments to them? Would it be remarkable for monuments placed on or near Fifth Avenue to appear vertically straight when seen via satellite? Is it all a coincidence…or international Masonic conspiracy?! You decide!

Some background on New York’s Cleopatra’s Needle here.