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"I have enormous respect for essential workers, but the plan here would ruin an amazing green space in Battery Park."

Also a tribute to Mayor Edward Koch, who once proposed a wolf battalion to guard our city's train yards against graffitists.

The bronze statue of Dr. J. Marion Sims, which sits at the Fifth Avenue and 103rd Street entrance to the park, has recently attracted citywide attention in the wake of Charlottesville.

East Harlem residents have long called for the statue's removal.

Via soozenyc On Monday night, a plaque in honor of longtime