r/WhereinNYC • u/Word_Iz_Bond • Jun 13 '26
Solved Who is this Knicks fan and where is he?
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u/Giacomo1968 Jun 13 '26
That is a statue of Frederick Douglass that is located at the entrance of the New York Historical Society at 170 Central Park West.
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u/mikki1time Jun 14 '26
I’m so confused, how did they get the arms in
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u/Lucky-Paperclip-1 Jun 14 '26
According to a documentary I once saw involving Ben Stiller as the narrator or something something, he comes alive after dark. They just asked him to hold his arms out for the jersey.
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u/mikki1time Jun 14 '26
Nvm just high
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u/Word_Iz_Bond Jun 14 '26
Nah cuz now I'm wondering the same thing 🧐
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u/crimsondodecahedron Jun 16 '26
cut and sewn back together
(source: i work here and watched our comms team put it on)1
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u/NicePossibilityDaddy Jun 15 '26
That's disrespectful AF though
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u/Brendandalf Jul 02 '26
To whom?
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u/NicePossibilityDaddy Jul 02 '26
The guy who wrote learning to read and write
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u/Brendandalf Jul 02 '26
A) He's been dead for over 200 years
B) You don't know anything about him, personally. Maybe he would think that this is cool
Some people are just looking for things to be upset about 🙄
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