Almost 5 years since the ignominious transport to Brooklyn of the famed sculptor Frederick MacMonnies' "The Triumph of Civic Virtue" carved by the acclaimed Italian-American marble cutters, the Piccirilli Brothers, the beloved missing statue's remaining fountain base and surroundings are ready for public usage.
(See exclusive coverage of the removal of the statue on December 15, 2012 HERE. Also, the statue's emplacement in Brooklyn's Green-Wood cemetery immediately thereafter on December 19, 2012 HERE. And again, the Green-Wood cemetery emplacement site on the one-year anniversary of Civic Virtue's removal, December 15, 2013 HERE.)
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| PHOTO 1. WHO'S MISSING? |
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| PHOTO 2. INDEED. WHO'S MISSING? |
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PHOTO 3. GREEN CONSTRUCTION PLYWOOD FENCING
IS NOW GONE.
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PHOTO 4. WORKERS PACKING UP TO
FINISH THE JOB.
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PHOTO 5. RUMOR HAS IT THAT BLUE BOXWOOD AND
WHITE LILLIES - THE COLORS OF THE FLAG OF QUEENS -
WILL BE PLANTED. |
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| PHOTO 6. EXTENSIVE GRAFFITI WAS REMOVED. |
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PHOTO 7. VIEW TOWARDS QUEENS BOULEVARD.
NOTE EMPTY VOID ATOP THE FOUNTAIN WHEREON
THE CIVIC VIRTUE STATUE WAS SITUATED.
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PHOTO 8. DO NOT APPROACH FOUNTAIN
BASE BAREFOOTED.
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PHOTO 9. SOON THE DOLPHIN WILL BE SPEWING GURGLING
WATER FROM ITS MAW.
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PHOTO 10. BUT WOULD SHE HAVE SHELLED OUT HER
MONEY KNOWING THE STATUE WAS GONE? MAYBE HER HEIRS
HAVE A LAWSUIT?
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| PHOTO 11. SPIC AND SPAN. |
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PHOTO 12. PLASTIC BENCHES TO TAKE IN
THE DANCING WATERS.
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PHOTO 13. ATOP THE HILL CALLING FOR A
COMMANDING PRESENCE.
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| PHOTO 13. JUST NOT THE SAME. |
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| PHOTO 14. KEW GARDENS SUBWAY AND BUS STOPS. |
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| PHOTO 15. OBLIVIOUS TO THE MISSING STATUE. |
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| PHOTO 16. QUEENS 2017. |
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