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Spring 2006

915 TIME CAPSULE DISCOVERED ON CASE’S WEST QUAD, FORMER HOSPITAL SITE

WHILE DEMOLITION WAS UNDERWAY ON CASE’S WEST QUAD ON THE FORMER MT. SINAI CAMPUS ON 105TH STREET, the crew discovered a time capsule, planted there on June 6, 1915, by the founders of Mt. Sinai.The university’s director of architectural services had alerted the demolition crew to be on the lookout for a time capsule, as many times cornerstones have a cavity for one. Once they uncovered it, they immediately turned the dented but secured copper box over to the University

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