Central Park’s Doomed Victorian Dinosaur Museum

[samclemens]

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/dinosaur-museum-central-park-boss-tweed-nyc

[woodruffw]

One dinosaur museum near Central Park is enough, methinks.

[gumby → woodruffw]

But this one was in the park. A completely different value prop!

It should have garnered massive VC investment to gain market share quickly.

[capitainenemo]

So from reading the story, Boss Tweed didn't order the destruction himself, the actual written order came from one of his underlings he installed, a man called Hilton. Whether the actual order to Hilton came from Tweed, who knows..