New York Post Card

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Permalink Reply by panda on July 22, 2009 at 4:04pm

Bright solved this in chat. It is a Vigenere cipher (set to encrypt, not decrypt) with the passphrase "Maddison":

BROOKLYNSIDEWALKPLA NTERBRICKBETWEENBO GARTANDROBERTASON MOORE

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Permalink Reply by QtheC on July 22, 2009 at 4:15pm

PRLLCTKAGIABOIXXDLX
KLMDOFIZHTMFJSEKYG
OMEHAKAJWNRFTXPGV
YBCRB

YOUR FAV,
T



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"YOUR FAV" = Maddison.

Plugging into
http://rumkin.com/tools/cipher/vigenere.php
with "Encrypt" selected and passphrase "maddison"
yields:


BROOKLYNSIDEWALKPLA
NTERBRICKBETWEENBO
GARTANDROBERTASON
MOORE


Brooklyn sidewalk planter brick between
Bogart and Robertason Moore


There is an interesection of Bogart St. and Moore St. in Brooklyn...

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocod...


There is also a train track nearby (to th eNorthwest)

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Permalink Reply by mistabroadway on July 22, 2009 at 4:37pm

Robertas is a pizza place on Moore and Bogart.

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Permalink Reply by QtheC on July 22, 2009 at 4:37pm

Okay, there is a Pizza place called Roberta's on Moore St. in Brooklyn, just down from Bogart St.

Roberta's
261 Moore St, Brooklyn, NY‎

So the message is:

Brooklyn sidewalk planter brick between Bogart and Roberta's on Moore


This planter looks like a possibility:

http://tinyurl.com/nlfow6 (link to google map)


There is another one on the Bogart St. side of that corner here:

http://tinyurl.com/mh8hpx

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Permalink Reply by silverblue on July 22, 2009 at 8:43pm

Has this been retrieved? If so, I'm having trouble finding a thread on it... can someone point me in the right direction?

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Permalink Reply by Krmurr on July 22, 2009 at 8:50pm

Yes it has!

silverblue said:

Has this been retrieved? If so, I'm having trouble finding a thread on it... can someone point me in the right direction?

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Permalink Reply by grace2_89 on July 22, 2009 at 9:26pm

OY! I didn't see this thread! For all those looking for the picked-up drop, here's the thread: http://maddisonatkins.com/forum/topics/brooklynnyc-drop-letter

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