Known as Cleopatra's Needle, this obelisk stood over the Nile for about 3,300 before being brought to New York City in the 1880s. It gets little attention from the joggers, bikers, skateboarders and other passers by. But if one pauses for a New York minute to imagine what else has transpired under its shadow over 3+ millennia, it boggles the mind to picture it all: from the ancient farmers tending their crops of wheat and barley, the toiling laborers and slaves, priests, royalty and chariots, to Napoleon, followed by the British, to the Handsome cabs and casual strolling masses of New York's Gilded Age, to flappers, hippies, and today's ever flowing masses.... How trivial we all must appear to this monument, for which the entire lifetime of each precious individual who ever crossed, crosses or will ever cross its gaze is but a blink. This photo is meant to capture them all.