November 08, 2005
Little Lady Liberty gets a Brooklyn pedestal
As the Brooklyn Museum of Art approaches the end of its multi-year renovation project, it's left something of a hidden treasure trove sitting on the lawn behind its parking lot. Behind a simple chain-link fence, dozens of statues, antique light fixtures and intricate cornices have been sitting on the ground, covered with snow in winter, exposed to the heat of summer.
Among them has been Little Liberty, (pictured above, on her back behind the parking lot in April 2004,) a 37-foot-tall version of the original, which perched for nearly 100 years atop the now-closed Liberty Warehouse on 64th Street since 1902.
Over the past year, those statues have been removed from the back lawn and placed in the Brooklyn Museum's new statue garden, (which has free wi-fi.) Earlier this month, Little Liberty got her own pedestal near the statue garden, as well, according to Forgotten NY, which also has a big photo gallery of the art outdoor artworks at the museum.
Little Liberty is scheduled for renovation and recladding.
(Photo credits: Sally Williams for the Brooklyn Museum, top, and NewYorkology, bottom.)
November 8, 2005 06:51 AM in Out of Manhattan, Sightsology
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