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Without dedicated funding for conservation, many of New York City’s public memorials and artworks are decaying from neglect.

Gillie and Marc’s statue of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Photo courtesy of the artists. Meanwhile, the city’s She Built NYC initiative, launched in 2018, will build monuments to jazz legend Billie Holiday, public health pioneer Helen Rodríguez Trías, civil rights leader Elizabeth Jennings Graham, lighthouse keeper Katherine Walker, and Shirley Chisholm, the nation’s first Black congresswoman. Those names were chosen after a public poll; when the most-suggested woman, Saint Frances Cabrini, wasn’t among those chosen for a statue, her fellow Italian American, Governor Andrew Cuomo, too...

A Monument Honoring Brooklyn Abolitionists Stalls Under Scrutiny Activists say a proposed project is too abstract for a time when Black New Yorkers are eager to see figures that look like them among the city’s statues. Willoughby Square Park, where the city intends to erect a monument to Brooklyn’s abolitionists.Credit...Aundre Larrow for The New York Times By Zachary Small Jan. 25, 2021 When the artist Kameelah Janan Rasheed was commissioned to conceive of a project honoring Brooklyn abolitionists, she wanted to turn the idea of a monument on its head. She proposed to reinvent the design...