Liberty Warehouse
64th and Broadway
New York City
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Statue of Liberty
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Liberty Warehouse Statue of Liberty 64th and Broadway New York City 40 foot tall Statue of Liberty (on pedestal) faithfully modeled after the original in New York harbor with practical exceptions such as a torch that looks more like a coffee can. In "New York: A Serendipiter's Journey" (Harper & Brothers, 1961), Gay Talese recounted that the statue was installed in 1902 by William H. Flattau, a French immigrant and patriotic warehouse owner, who died in 1931 along with much of the statue's history. The statue rests on top of the 8-story Liberty Storage Warehouse Building, 43 West 64th, (location of O'Neals' restaurant) near the corner of 64th Street and Broadway, overlooking Lincoln Center. The Statue is made of molded sheet metal bolted to a frame. It has a circular stairway inside and a view down Broadway through the crown, but access for the public was closed in 1912. This Liberty was cast in Akron, Ohio in the early 1900s and sent to New York on a flatbed train car. At the time, it was one of the highest points on the city's West Side. Widely reputed to be 55 feet tall, the actual height is more like 40 feet, about the same height as Bartholdi's 36 foot working model, now mounted near the foot of the Grenelle Bridge on the Seine River in Paris. On 19 December 2001, Athena Group, a New York property developer, announced plans to renovate the building into a 12- story apartment house. The statue will be preserved "under all circumstances". Relocation sites are being considered. Sunday, 17 February 2002 37 Foot Tall Statue of Liberty Removed from Liberty Warehouse for Relocation to Brooklyn Museum. The Athena Group, owner of the Statue and Liberty Warehouse where it stood, donated the artwork to Brooklyn Museum of Art in honor of the police officers, firefighters and other emergency workers killed Sept. 11. It will be featured in the museum's sculpture garden. Brooklyn Museum of Art: http://www.brooklynart.org/  August 9, 2005 Arts, Briefly Compiled by LAWRENCE VAN GELDER Liberty Moves to Brooklyn The Statue of Liberty that stood for years atop a Manhattan warehouse will rise again in October on the grounds of the Frieda Schiff Warburg Memorial Sculpture Garden at the Brooklyn Museum. The 47-foot-tall statue and pedestal, much shorter than the Bartholdi original (151 feet, 1 inch from base to torch), was created in the late 19th century by immigrant artisans as a gesture of patriotism and was installed in 1902 on the Liberty Storage Warehouse at 43 West 64th Street, at Broadway. Given to the museum in 2002, when the building was turned into cooperative apartments, it will join a collection of architectural fragments salvaged from other New York City structures like Pennsylvania Station and Steeplechase Park in Coney Island. Since arriving at the museum in 2002, the statue has been lying on its back in a secured area of the parking lot, pending conservation including cleaning, stabilization, a surface finish and a new base. August 13, 2005 Brooklyn Museum to Install Monumental Statue of Liberty Replica HelloBrooklyn.Com 
A monumental replica of the Statue of Liberty will be raised on the grounds in the rear of the
Brooklyn Museum in October 2005. Created in the late nineteenth century by immigrant artisans as a gesture of patriotism, it was originally installed atop a Manhattan building where it stood for one hundred years. The statue was a gift to the Brooklyn Museum in 2002 by The Athena Group,
Athena Liberty-Lofts L.P.,
and Brickman Associates, who removed it from the building when it was being turned into cooperative apartments. In its new ground-level home at the Brooklyn Museum, the statue will be viewable up close and on all sides. About one-fifth the height of the Bartholdi original, the sculpture will undergo conservation efforts in view of visitors beginning in the spring of 2006 while positioned in its new location. The 47-foot-high Statue of Liberty and pedestal was originally installed in 1902 on auctioneer William H. Flattau’s Liberty Storage Warehouse at 43 West 64th Street, where it was once one of the highest points on the Upper West Side. Until 1912 visitors were able to ascend an interior spiral staircase to view Broadway and Columbus Circle through Lady Liberty’s crown. Made of galvanized steel over an iron framework and fully modeled in three dimensions, it is thought to have been created in a foundry in either Pennsylvania or Ohio. The statue is the latest and largest addition to the Brooklyn Museum’s Frieda Schiff Warburg Memorial Sculpture Garden –– a collection of architectural fragments salvaged from New York City buildings that were being demolished, including Pennsylvania Station and Coney Island’s Steeplechase Park. Since its arrival at the Museum in 2002, the statue has been lying on its back in a secured area of the parking lot, where, along with other objects in the collection, it has undergone review and evaluation by Museum conservators in preparation for its reinstallation. The conservation treatment will include cleaning of the surface, stabilization of the structure, and an appropriate surface finish, along with a new base. The Brooklyn Museum has been awarded a Cultural Grant from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs to support the reinstallation and enhancement of the Frieda Schiff Memorial Sculpture Garden. The donation of the statue to the Brooklyn Museum by The Athena Group, Athena Liberty-Lofts L.P., and Brickman Associates honors the Fire Department of New York, the New York Police Department, the Emergency Medical Services, and the New York State Court Officers and their heroism on September 11, 2001. Visit the Brooklyn Museum Web site at http://www.brooklynmuseum.org |
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