The Great Grand Piano Mystery...

Every day I take a run around Lower Manhattan.

Yesterday, my route brought me underneath the Brooklyn Bridge, where I encountered the most unusual discarded item I've ever seen.

There, in the sand and surf along the East River, sat an old, neglected baby grand piano.

Apparently, it has been there for 2 months now, and has drawn quite a bit of attention. Top photographers have used it as background for high-end photo shoots. Journalists have tried to trace the origins of the Mason Hamlin instrument. Musicians have mused about its pedigree and backstory. But no one has come forward to claim or authenticate it.

The shell is still drawing a daily crowd of curious New Yorkers, wondering how it got there, magically upright, and tracking its daily erosion in the surf.

A similar baby grand was found in Miami a few years ago, but that mystery eventually got solved, and the young man behind it swears his hands are clean in this latest enigma.

So the theories keep swirling, the crowds keep coming, and the artists keep finding new inspiration in this newest piece of flotsam adorning the Manhattan coast.

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