Cleopatra's Needle

And it feels that way, up there on high, with “Cleopatra’s Needle,” the monumental, 3,000-year-old, Met-owned Egyptian obelisk rising to a point in the park below, and pyramids of all shapes and sizes topping Manhattan buildings everywhere you look, in a city of vivacious, ever under-threat Black and Brown neighborhoods, precious, present and gone.

Before Cleopatra's Needle was unveiled in New York, a time capsule was buried at the site.

There’s even an authentic, 3,000-year-old Egyptian one in New York’s Central Park, known as “Cleopatra’s Needle.”

“With its lovely view of Cleopatra’s Needle in Central Park, warm blond wood paneling and recessed lighting, the restaurant has a serene, almost Japanese feel,” wrote The Times in 1992.

But first, one more glance to the right, where a 66-foot obelisk known as Cleopatra’s Needle was installed in 1881 after being moved from Egypt.