An imposing statue of the man himself, sleeves rolled up and chest thrust bravely forward, stands in the middle of a small park opposite, impervious to the icy wind blowing from Siberia.
But Heath had much to say on many topics and, as a man whose sleeve had been brushed by Hitler's at a rally in Nuremberg in 1937, he brought increasingly unique insights to the task.
The man's sleeve, with its heavy jewellery of impasto nubs catching the light, is one of the most famous passages of painting in art and to see it here is to understand why people crossed Europe to witness the way Rembrandt turned paint into gold.
For as long as I can remember, New Zealand has lived in the shadow of imposing, near-silent Pākehā men with sleeves rolled up and the rugby on the telly.
Uniqlo, a Gap-like chain from Japan with a SoHo branch so big it feels like a railway station (546 Broadway, at Prince Street), carries a men's Sleeve Reshuffling Jacket, in black, olive, and beige, that is made of Body Warm Lite thermal filling — "an original Uniqlo technology based on the science of air" (hmm) — for $79.50.
By 6.30pm there was already a line outside the concert hall at the Dee Why RSL: platinum blondes, muscular men with sleeve tattoos, a smattering of goths, two young women wearing very revealing pirate costumes, and a group of greasy metalheads in matching Mastodon T-shirts.
Somehow, out of nowhere, she had gotten hold of a man's arm, a soft sleeve.
A scratchy ink drawing from 1963 profiles a lean, bald man in short sleeves.
Photos posted online showed people who appeared to be injured, rescue workers clambering across a smoke-shrouded roof and a man in shirt sleeves holding a young child whose fate was not certain.
But a woman or a man with tattoo sleeves still turns my head in befuddlement.
