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  1. It’s interesting that it’s a ram’s skull although, given the name of the theatre, it makes sense.

    You’ll notice, if you look at the second or third storeys of a lot of turn-of-the-century architecture in the city, a motif of an ox skull hung with garlands. This was a common motif in antiquity, from Roman temples (referring to sacrificial oxen).

    Here’s an example I was able to find in a quick Google images search (although not one in NYC):
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/66122200@N00/714644952

  2. I find it odd that not only did you find these skull motifs on the building…but the building itself looks to be closed/abandoned! Former cult lodge perhaps?

  3. @Ali: the Scout notes in the first paragraph that the building is being renovated.

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