Thomas Jefferson statue removed from City Hall after 187 years
This is rather screwed up.
Thomas Jefferson statue removed from City Hall after 187 years
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Thomas Jefferson is no longer in the room where it happens.
Art handlers packed up an 884-pound statue of Jefferson in a wooden crate Monday after a mayoral commission voted to banish the likeness of the nation’s third president from City Hall where its resided for nearly two centuries — because he owned slaves.
About a dozen workers with Marshall Fine Arts spent several hours carefully removing the painted plaster monument from its pedestal inside the City Council chambers and surrounding it with sections of foam and wooden boards.
https://nypost.com/2021/11/22/thomas...wRMADCBjExQGyM
Here we go. I wonder if the Erie County Democrat party sent him a "good job" card.
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This Founding Father will no longer be in “the room where it happens” — thanks to Bill de Blasio.
The mayor, who has just three months left in office, is quietly banishing a statue of Thomas Jefferson from City Hall — where it has resided for the past 187 years, The Post has learned.
The city’s Public Design Commission — comprised of mayoral appointees — has listed “the long term loan” of the 1833 painted plaster Council Chambers statue of the Declaration of Independence author to the New-York Historical Society on its “consent” agenda for Monday.
Movin’ on out: De Blasio booting Founding Father Jefferson from City Hall
https://nypost.com/2021/10/13/de-bla...rom-city-hall/
