Controversial ‘sexist’ statue moving to Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery
“Civic Virtue,” a controversial and deteriorating marble statue depicting a muscle-bound young man (representing virtue) trampling upon two reclining young women (representing graft and corruption) is finally moving from Kew Gardens, Queens, to Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery, according to the New York Times.
The long-debated move was authorized Nov. 13 by the municipal Design Commission as a “long-term loan.”
The 22-ton statue was originally installed in front of New York City Hall in 1922, where it was denounced as “a demeaning depiction of woman being trampled by man.”