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The city of New York has been gradually moving the controversial statue Civic Virtue around. In 1922, American Beaux-Arts sculptor Frederick MacMonnies fashioned the piece for City Hall Park in Manhattan. The sculpture depicts a nude man gripping a sword and towering over two sirens. The man represents “civic virtue” and the women represent “Vice,” and “Corruption.” Twenty years later, the city moved the statue because Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia was “tired of seeing Civic Virtue’s naked derriere every time he left his office.” When Queens opened its Borough Hall, Mayor LaGuardia gifted the three-figure statue to the borough. This would not be its last move, however.
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