Want to see the Statue of Liberty during the shutdown?
The Brooklyn Museum has a famous replica
The Brooklyn Museum is inviting disappointed tourists to come visit their replica of the Statue of Liberty during the shutdown of the federal government, while the real monument is closed.
The Brooklyn Museum’s 47-foot-high Statue of Liberty with pedestal, about one-fifth the height of the Bartholdi original, is itself historical. The piece was originally installed in 1902 on auctioneer William H. Flattau’s Liberty Storage Warehouse at 43 West 64 Street, at that time one of the highest points on the Upper West Side.
According to Forgotten-ny.com, the work was shipped into New York City on a flatbed car after being sliced in half lengthwise, and then soldered together again. When first erected, the statue had a spiral staircase that allowed visitors to climb up to the top to get a panoramic view, “just like in the real McCoy in the harbor.”