The Berlin Wall: A Reminder in Battery Park City

This piece of the Berlin Wall sits outside my apartment building in Battery Park City in lower Manhattan.
The plaque reads:
"In November 2004, the 15th Anniversary of the dismantling of the Berlin Wall, the city of Berlin donated this piece of the Wall to Battery Park City. These segments were originally located in downtown Berlin in the area between Potsdamer Platz and Leipziger Platz. They were not exposed to the West ("Outer Wall"), but part of the Inner Wall that was designed to prevent East Germans from entering the heavily guarded death strip between the Inner and the Outer Wall."

Since I moved in a year after the donation, I had no idea where the cement slab came from. I walked by this piece of history a few times wondering if the painting depicted a chicken or a sexy snake. Eventually, I was curious enough to read the plaque. Sometimes a chunk of cement is more than just a chunk of cement.