The heist took 13 minutes 58 seconds, from the moment the man in the gray T-shirt appeared to the moment when he walked away, having slipped the loot into a backpack he slung over his shoulder. The haul was a 15-inch-wide metal plaque from the iron gate of a cemetery on the Lower East Side.
At least two commemorative plaques placed by Berman's group have disappeared. One celebrated the writer Anais Nin. The other, recognized Fillmore East, the church of rock n roll where the Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix, and Janis Joplin performed.
Yet another plaque, honoring Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman to graduate from an American medical school, was damaged last month.
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