User blog comment:Affectos/Origin Challenge/@comment-24509764-20150307225459

"While not tied to New York Mayor Leguaridia, but in my History of Interactive Media (AKA History of Video Games), we learned that when gambling machines and early pinball was banned in New York, Leguardia posed for photo ops of him destroying machines, and even had the cops saw the legs off the early pinball machines and use them as batons. " - Affectos

Maybe its the handle from the sledgehammer, damaged after years of neglect but still retaining artifact properties. Or it could also be the leg of one of the pinball machines he smashed.