New York and 1st clue in riddle.

[Dutch]

 Hello peoples, I am new here and just an ole hippie. Glad to be here and to have joined this hunt. Anyway, I have scanned with my eyes the visual clues and given great thought to words in the riddle. I think that I can help someone soon find the 12th treasure location. I think that I have the very location of that shizzle? The first clue in the riddle, " In the shadow of the grey giant" I believe that it is a reference to the painting, not an actual starting location. Her is why. If you look at the bottom center of the painting in the water directly below the jewel, I can clearly see a Grey Whale. You can see the funny shaped mouth, the eye with the skin brow and the shape of almost 2/3rds of the whale? Take a look and tell me what you think. I have uncovered many other answers to the clues I think, and I think that I know where the treasure is!

[Dutch]

I see so many peoples that are reading my post, but no replies? Maybe just non-members are viewing? IDK. Is anyone viewing here actually in New York City? I am in Bedford County Pennsylvania and I have no interest in visiting New York to find a gem valued at $1,000.00 in 1982. Anyway, I will offer what I have uncovered about the painting and the riddle. As I understand it, the visual clues in the painting are to be seen with the naked eye and not with trick photo imaging and other things. The clues are visible and not concealed as I have read. The riddle uses also vague references to the location of the treasure, yet, very clearly revealing if you do not take it literally word for word and can think in an abstract way. New York treasure hunters get your permit and your shovel! Seriously. Also, when I get a response from New York,or Josh Gates from Expedition Unknown wants to help me find it, I will reveal the next of the many clues that I think that I have solved? I used google maps to walk around New York at street level to do my research and walk around and visit the places that I was led to by the clues. I also used others interpretations of various parts of the painting to find my way to solving this mystery. Before you connect the dots, you must collect the dots!!!!

[goldhunter]

Welcome, Dutch!

Getting someone to help search is usually pretty tough. Good luck.

I like your idea about the shadow being in the painting instead of an actual place.

Rock on!

[Dutch]

Thanks for the welcome Goldhunter. I have only been studying the 12th treasure. All the clues are there to find the correct location to dig, and I see them. Some are obscure, some not. I would like to see more responses to my post and slowly reveal what I see and have concluded from the riddle and the painting. If I were living in NYC, I would dig that box up tomorrow! That is if I am correct? But, I have tried to debunk my own conclusions, but I can't!

[ju4crafts]

This was my theory for this one:

Verse:
In the shadow of the grey giant (Statue of Liberty)
Find the arm that extends over the slender path (Long Island painting will pinpoint location)
In summer you'll often hear a whirring sound cars abound (Whirring is the planes from La Guardia airport the cars from a busy Bronx neighborhood)
Although the sign nearby speaks of Indies native The natives still speak of him of Hard word in 3 vols.(sign must be gone now- Siwanoy Native Americans lived there at Clason Point Park. The him referred to is Wampage. There were three major events 1. Kieft's War 2. Anne Hutchinson murder 3. Pound Ridge Massacre)
Take twice as many east steps as the hour (11 on the clock in the painting) or more from the middle of one brand of the v. (11 o'clock does not go east from the park, it goes east from your destination. Take Soundview Avenue to Whiteplains Road north and pick up Soundview Avenue again. 401-405 Soundview Avenue Bronx, NY 10473 the Woodrow Wilson Triangle is your destination. Go to the World War I memorial monument. Looks like the lady in the painting.)
Look down and see simple roots in rhapsodic man's soil (Go to the back of the monument which should have words inscribed but I can't find a way to view. Scan with GPR the area between the monument and the large Elm tree. The casque should be there.)
Or gaze north toward the isle of B (When your at the back of the monument you are facing Bolton Avenue)

Painting findings:
Shape is of Whitestone Bridge.
The lady resembles the Statue of Liberty and the lady on the memorial at Woodrow Wilson Triangle.
On her gown is a tiger/lioness face for the Bronx Zoo.
The Onion Dome section resembles the area of the Bronx where the Clason Point Park is located geographically and it has a dot on it corresponding to the location.
On the fold of the woman's sleeve on her right is an arrow made of the shadows pointing you there to Clason Point Park.
At night the lights from the Whitestone Bridge make red rectangular shapes on the water.
73 on eagles wing, 4 on shadow of eagle's eye, 0 on mouth give you the coordinates for Woodrow Wilson Triangle:
40.813585 73.8581707
Clock gives you the 11 to use.

[fennfan]

This is one where the conventional wisdom seems to correctly match Painting and verse. I'm not sure about others. My guess this is the reason no others have been found.