Push on to replace stolen statue in changing Bed-Stuy
Thirteen years ago, a robbery in Bed-Stuy’s Saratoga Park was big news.
“Brazen thieves have stolen a 7-foot-tall World War I memorial statue honoring fallen soldiers from its home in a Brooklyn park,” the New York Post reported in April 2000.
“My feeling is one of complete outrage,” said then Parks Commissioner Henry Stern, whose office had offered up a $1,000 reward for information leading to its return. “It’s such an enormous lack of respect. It’s like desecrating a cemetery,” the commissioner added. He alluded to a pair of side panels listing the names of fallen soldiers that went missing in 1974.