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Controversial Civic Virtue Statue Moving to Green-Wood

The most traveled statue in NYC will soon be settling down in Green-Wood Cemetery [http://www.green-wood.com/]. Designed in 1920 by Frederick MacMonnies as an allegory of virtue over vice, the statue, which made its debut at City Hall during the height of the women’s suffrage movement, faced

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Is There A Hush-Hush Plan In Place To Move A Controversial Statue To Green-Wood Cemetery?

Source: Popular Mechanics Magazine, July 1922 via Wikimedia CommonsA century-old statue once called sexist by former congressman Anthony Weiner and an eyesore by other political figures, may be moving to Green-Wood cemetery. The “Civic Virtue” statue has been standing along Queens Boulevard, left to weather with no one in caring