Mocker and the Triumph Statue that Needs More "Umph"

I added links (click below) Take a closer look at the base of the statue because there's more controversy there.

(Feb 25, 2011 UPDATE) Congressman and Council Member call for removal of statue and try to give it away on Craigslist. I've added more links (click below)

 
Additional info here including a plea to Donald Trump from some Queens neighbors. It's the mockmail entry from Friday.

Here's a picture of the statue outside City Hall in Manhattan (from the front... imagine the rear view looking out the windows)

Great background from forgotten-ny.com

Here's the complete statement from Vickie Karp at NYC Parks & Recreation. She emailed me a response (in consult with Jonathan Kuhn, Director of Art & Antiquities) about plans for the cape $$:

"The money provides general operating support for our program, including the salary and benefits of a full time professional conservator as well partial support towards our summer program, including four graduate-level field interns. It is bundled with other funds to ensure the solvency of our program beyond this year. We have many projects planned, big and small. Over the winter at our shop in Brooklyn, one of our two conservators John Saunders is carefully repairing extensive damage to bronze World War I victory figure that was badly damaged by car and dragged down the BQE in December 2001. Later in year we will commence the repair of the Louise Nevelson sculpture. In the spring/summer, we will commence restoration of the Prospect Park War Memorial in conjunction with the lakeside project, and will also assist with the mounting of replicas of the long-missing bronze urns at the Concert Grove. In the summer we may conserve the Theodore Roosevelt sculpture in front of the Natural History Museum, but that is not yet confirmed. We will be engaged in dozens of much smaller jobs, both planned, and responsive, of annual care.

Many of the City’s monuments are restored or maintained with the help of private funding, and Civic Virtue seems to have run into a hurdle because of its political incorrectness – many people object to the fact that the vices are portrayed as women and virtue, a man, is stepping on them."

from the Daily News: "Triumph of Civic Virtue" has been controversial since its unveiling in 1922, which sparked a protest by feminists. Its symbolic tale of virtue overcoming vice is represented by a muscular nude male, triumphantly trampling two female sirens.

Woman represented in statues

See the offer on Craiglist http://newyork.craigslist.org/que/zip/2234512934.html

Mocker questions US Rep Anthony Weiner about statue, art and contrversy http://weblogs.wpix.com/news/mocker/2011/02/mocker_back_at_the_statue.html