In an effort to correct the civic record left in public art, New York City officials announced in June that we would soon be seeing more statues of women on our streets and in our parks. Right now there are very few — a bronze of Gertrude Stein in Bryant Park, a sculpture of Eleanor Roosevelt in Riverside Park. About a mile north of her you can find Joan of Arc riding a horse, but really, what is Joan of Arc — who fought for many things, not one of them rent control — doing on the Upper West Side of Manhattan? The city's new initiative rightly focuses on honoring women with a significant connection to New York, and it has called upon the public to make suggestions . While those votes are being counted, we conducted our own survey, to which more than 400 people responded. Many of them said they would like to see statues of Jane Jacobs and Margaret Sanger — women whose influence is still so alive in urban and social policy that it feels as if we commemorate them every day. We would like to see those statues , too, but the list below, though… Read full this story
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