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Gifted to the United States in 1885 to celebrate and commemorate our centennial anniversary the following year, the Statue of Liberty originally arrived in pieces, displayed around New York…

Matt Coneybeare https://viewing.nyc/authors/coneybeare/ <article class='post'> <div class='entry-content'> <section class='photos'> <figure class='photo'> <a href="https://viewing.nyc/video-above-new-york-statue-of-liberty-and-liberty-island-ce4a8228-7edd-40b5-b11d-a74a364a2516/"> <img width="640" alt="" src="https://cdn.viewing.nyc/assets/media/e7f5a0bb7f4ad3e1f7bed8dc7bc03bc6/elements/d0aa5a246c0953a7e17279b96c9902e6/8fd7aca5-7142-45b4-bc17-b2ecc989772d.gif" /> </a> </figure> </section> <section class='content'> <p>Gifted to the United States in 1885 to celebrate and commemorate our centennial anniversary the following year, the <a href="https://www.nps.gov/stli/index.htm">Statue of Liberty</a> originally arrived in pieces, displayed around <a href="https://viewing.nyc/vintage-photographs-of-the-status-of-liberty-under-construction-circa-1880s/">New York City</a> to raise support for the financing of the pedestal. With a campaign and donation matching request led by newspaper tycoon <a href="https://viewing.nyc/drunk-history-stumbles-through-the-story-behind-frederic-bartholdi-and-the-statue-of-liberty/">Joseph Pulitzer</a>, the fundraising efforts took over 10 years to determine a permanent location for the statue and to raise enough to pay for its pedestal, as the United States Congress refused to finance it.</p> <p>Standing at just over 151-feet-tall, Lady Liberty is the tallest statue in the United States. She is mounted on the massive star shaped footprint and pedestal, which gives her a total height of 305-feet, 1-inch from ground level to torch, allowing her to be seen from anywhere with a clean line-of-sight in New York City and parts of New Jersey.</p> <p>The Statue of Liberty National Monument sits on the aptly named Liberty Island and is managed by the <a href="https://www.nps.gov">United States National Park Service</a>. The land was originally known to New Yorkers as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_Island">Bedloe&#39;s Island</a>, only being renamed to Liberty Island in 1956 by and act of the United Stated Congress. The island was private for a century following the Dutch surrender of Fort Amsterdam to the British in 1664, where the original owner, Captain Robert Needham, sold it to the namesake Isaac Bedloe. It shifted hands privately and to businesses until February 1758, when the City of New York purchased the island for one thousand pounds to hold terminally ill patients with infectious diseases.</p> <p>After the United States won independence, the star-shaped Fort Wood was constructed on the island and was completed in 1811. Never used for battle, the aging fort was mostly dismantled for the mounting of the Statue of Liberty and pedestal, which maintained the original 11-point footprint for its foundation.</p> <p>In this short aerial video from our <a href="https://viewing.nyc/categories/above-new-york/">Above New York</a> series, see the Statue of Liberty and Liberty Island from a unique birds-eye-view on a gloomy day in New York Harbor. This is likely one of the last times you will see a drone video shot this close to the Statue of Liberty, as the <a href="https://www.faa.gov">FAA</a> and <a href="https://www.doi.gov/">DOI</a> have recently imposed special <a href="https://www.faa.gov/news/updates/?newsId=88811&omniRss=news_updatesAoc&cid=101_N_U">restrictions</a> on the proximity of flight to this, and other U.S. National Monuments. This video was captured before the new restrictions took effect.</p> </section> <section class='videos'> <div class='video'> <a href="https://viewing.nyc/video-above-new-york-statue-of-liberty-and-liberty-island-ce4a8228-7edd-40b5-b11d-a74a364a2516/"> <img width="640" src="https://cdn.viewing.nyc/5c7vnlifvseb2vufajf98am6gshp" /> </a> </div> </section> <section class='content'> <p class='minimal'>Music: <a href="https://soundcloud.com/pogomix/release">"Release" by Pogo</a></p> </section> <section> <p> <small><em>The post <a href="https://viewing.nyc/video-above-new-york-statue-of-liberty-and-liberty-island-ce4a8228-7edd-40b5-b11d-a74a364a2516/">[VIDEO] Above New York: Statue of Liberty and Liberty Island</a> appeared first on <a href="https://viewing.nyc/">Viewing NYC</a></em></small> </p> </section> </div> </article> urn:uuid:0f52be3e-9b9c-4ddd-9b71-a7d72e7c333d 2024-07-06T12:00:00-04:00 2026-03-29T19:11:25-04:00

Gifted to the United States in 1885 to celebrate and commemorate our centennial anniversary the following year, the Statue of Liberty originally arrived in pieces, displayed around New York…

Matt Coneybeare https://viewing.nyc/authors/coneybeare/ <article class='post'> <div class='entry-content'> <section class='photos'> <figure class='photo'> <a href="https://viewing.nyc/video-above-new-york-statue-of-liberty-and-liberty-island-d24ef97a-f509-4180-8150-4211534e457e/"> <img width="640" alt="" src="https://cdn.viewing.nyc/assets/media/3fb5898d958c528391b53e11ae08aece/elements/25752ff50ec48d36720eeb45111e732a/fab230c6-b1a4-4fab-aa6b-db5858fd4900.gif" /> </a> </figure> </section> <section class='content'> <p>Gifted to the United States in 1885 to celebrate and commemorate our centennial anniversary the following year, the <a href="https://www.nps.gov/stli/index.htm">Statue of Liberty</a> originally arrived in pieces, displayed around <a href="https://viewing.nyc/vintage-photographs-of-the-status-of-liberty-under-construction-circa-1880s/">New York City</a> to raise support for the financing of the pedestal. With a campaign and donation matching request led by newspaper tycoon <a href="https://viewing.nyc/drunk-history-stumbles-through-the-story-behind-frederic-bartholdi-and-the-statue-of-liberty/">Joseph Pulitzer</a>, the fundraising efforts took over 10 years to determine a permanent location for the statue and to raise enough to pay for its pedestal, as the United States Congress refused to finance it.</p> <p>Standing at just over 151-feet-tall, Lady Liberty is the tallest statue in the United States. She is mounted on the massive star shaped footprint and pedestal, which gives her a total height of 305-feet, 1-inch from ground level to torch, allowing her to be seen from anywhere with a clean line-of-sight in New York City and parts of New Jersey.</p> <p>The Statue of Liberty National Monument sits on the aptly named Liberty Island and is managed by the <a href="https://www.nps.gov">United States National Park Service</a>. The land was originally known to New Yorkers as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_Island">Bedloe&#39;s Island</a>, only being renamed to Liberty Island in 1956 by and act of the United Stated Congress. The island was private for a century following the Dutch surrender of Fort Amsterdam to the British in 1664, where the original owner, Captain Robert Needham, sold it to the namesake Isaac Bedloe. It shifted hands privately and to businesses until February 1758, when the City of New York purchased the island for one thousand pounds to hold terminally ill patients with infectious diseases.</p> <p>After the United States won independence, the star-shaped Fort Wood was constructed on the island and was completed in 1811. Never used for battle, the aging fort was mostly dismantled for the mounting of the Statue of Liberty and pedestal, which maintained the original 11-point footprint for its foundation.</p> <p>In this short aerial video from our <a href="https://viewing.nyc/categories/above-new-york/">Above New York</a> series, see the Statue of Liberty and Liberty Island from a unique birds-eye-view on a gloomy day in New York Harbor. This is likely one of the last times you will see a drone video shot this close to the Statue of Liberty, as the <a href="https://www.faa.gov">FAA</a> and <a href="https://www.doi.gov/">DOI</a> have recently imposed special <a href="https://www.faa.gov/news/updates/?newsId=88811&omniRss=news_updatesAoc&cid=101_N_U">restrictions</a> on the proximity of flight to this, and other U.S. National Monuments. This video was captured before the new restrictions took effect.</p> </section> <section class='videos'> <div class='video'> <a href="https://viewing.nyc/video-above-new-york-statue-of-liberty-and-liberty-island-d24ef97a-f509-4180-8150-4211534e457e/"> <img width="640" src="https://cdn.viewing.nyc/mly3f0jq7myos9mj3kjk12mq1fzu" /> </a> </div> </section> <section class='content'> <p class='minimal'>Music: <a href="https://soundcloud.com/pogomix/release">"Release" by Pogo</a></p> </section> <section> <p> <small><em>The post <a href="https://viewing.nyc/video-above-new-york-statue-of-liberty-and-liberty-island-d24ef97a-f509-4180-8150-4211534e457e/">[VIDEO] Above New York: Statue of Liberty and Liberty Island</a> appeared first on <a href="https://viewing.nyc/">Viewing NYC</a></em></small> </p> </section> </div> </article> urn:uuid:39b57e94-fdca-4e2a-a440-9b416db21d35 2024-05-17T12:00:00-04:00 2026-03-29T19:13:10-04:00

Gifted to the United States in 1885 to celebrate and commemorate our centennial anniversary the following year, the Statue of Liberty originally arrived in pieces, displayed around New York…

Matt Coneybeare https://viewing.nyc/authors/coneybeare/ <article class='post'> <div class='entry-content'> <section class='photos'> <figure class='photo'> <a href="https://viewing.nyc/watch-above-new-york-statue-of-liberty-and-liberty-island/"> <img width="640" alt="" src="https://cdn.viewing.nyc/assets/media/469c6cc645dc8fcb9af864ddefa76481/elements/d4e92a40d77ca60c60f6ad2b4e358cf2/cfd1a045-5579-4f6c-8cfa-5cc521e4ea9f.gif" /> </a> </figure> </section> <section class='content'> <p>Gifted to the United States in 1885 to celebrate and commemorate our centennial anniversary the following year, the <a href="https://www.nps.gov/stli/index.htm">Statue of Liberty</a> originally arrived in pieces, displayed around <a href="https://viewing.nyc/vintage-photographs-of-the-status-of-liberty-under-construction-circa-1880s/">New York City</a> to raise support for the financing of the pedestal. With a campaign and donation matching request led by newspaper tycoon <a href="https://viewing.nyc/drunk-history-stumbles-through-the-story-behind-frederic-bartholdi-and-the-statue-of-liberty/">Joseph Pulitzer</a>, the fundraising efforts took over 10 years to determine a permanent location for the statue and to raise enough to pay for its pedestal, as the United States Congress refused to finance it.</p> <p>Standing at just over 151-feet-tall, Lady Liberty is the tallest statue in the United States. She is mounted on the massive star shaped footprint and pedestal, which gives her a total height of 305-feet, 1-inch from ground level to torch, allowing her to be seen from anywhere with a clean line-of-sight in New York City and parts of New Jersey.</p> <p>The Statue of Liberty National Monument sits on the aptly named Liberty Island and is managed by the <a href="https://www.nps.gov">United States National Park Service</a>. The land was originally known to New Yorkers as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_Island">Bedloe&#39;s Island</a>, only being renamed to Liberty Island in 1956 by and act of the United Stated Congress. The island was private for a century following the Dutch surrender of Fort Amsterdam to the British in 1664, where the original owner, Captain Robert Needham, sold it to the namesake Isaac Bedloe. It shifted hands privately and to businesses until February 1758, when the City of New York purchased the island for one thousand pounds to hold terminally ill patients with infectious diseases.</p> <p>After the United States won independence, the star-shaped Fort Wood was constructed on the island and was completed in 1811. Never used for battle, the aging fort was mostly dismantled for the mounting of the Statue of Liberty and pedestal, which maintained the original 11-point footprint for its foundation.</p> <p>In this short aerial video from our <a href="https://viewing.nyc/categories/above-new-york/">Above New York</a> series, see the Statue of Liberty and Liberty Island from a unique birds-eye-view on a gloomy day in New York Harbor. This is likely one of the last times you will see a drone video shot this close to the Statue of Liberty, as the <a href="https://www.faa.gov">FAA</a> and <a href="https://www.doi.gov/">DOI</a> have recently imposed special <a href="https://www.faa.gov/news/updates/?newsId=88811&omniRss=news_updatesAoc&cid=101_N_U">restrictions</a> on the proximity of flight to this, and other U.S. National Monuments. This video was captured before the new restrictions took effect.</p> </section> <section class='videos'> <div class='video'> <a href="https://viewing.nyc/watch-above-new-york-statue-of-liberty-and-liberty-island/"> <img width="640" src="https://cdn.viewing.nyc/cwv4ufzrok8d0peygcmvujlok6x3" /> </a> </div> </section> <section class='content'> <p class='minimal'>Music: <a href="https://soundcloud.com/pogomix/release">"Release" by Pogo</a></p> </section> <section> <p> <small><em>The post <a href="https://viewing.nyc/watch-above-new-york-statue-of-liberty-and-liberty-island/">[WATCH] Above New York: Statue of Liberty and Liberty Island</a> appeared first on <a href="https://viewing.nyc/">Viewing NYC</a></em></small> </p> </section> </div> </article> urn:uuid:d2c1a553-6142-4867-85cb-b494499553fa 2022-06-10T12:00:00-04:00 2026-03-29T19:36:28-04:00

The legacy of Broadway icon Lorraine Hansberry is being honored in the middle of the Theater District. As CBS2's Steve Overmyer says, her image will be on display to inspire the next…

Matt Coneybeare https://viewing.nyc/authors/coneybeare/ <article class='post'> <div class='entry-content'> <section class='videos'> <div class='video'> <a href="https://viewing.nyc/video-broadway-legend-lorraine-hansberry-honored-with-statue-in-times-square/"> <img width="640" src="https://cdn.viewing.nyc/mricmzs99xqov3b5rnzy3brynh9j" /> </a> </div> </section> <section class='content'> <blockquote> <p>The legacy of Broadway icon Lorraine Hansberry is being honored in the middle of the Theater District. As CBS2&#39;s Steve Overmyer says, her image will be on display to inspire the next generation.</p> </blockquote> </section> <section> <p> <small><em>The post <a href="https://viewing.nyc/video-broadway-legend-lorraine-hansberry-honored-with-statue-in-times-square/">[VIDEO] Broadway Legend Lorraine Hansberry Honored with Statue in Times Square</a> appeared first on <a href="https://viewing.nyc/">Viewing NYC</a></em></small> </p> </section> </div> </article> urn:uuid:e5bf5d70-b034-4145-8e46-8b2570ef238a 2022-05-26T14:00:00-04:00 2026-03-29T19:39:08-04:00

Good afternoon! Wishing you a happy Thursday, May 26th, 2022 from all of us at Viewing NYC! Here's what the weather looks like in the City right now.

Matt Coneybeare https://viewing.nyc/authors/coneybeare/ <article class='post'> <div class='entry-content'> <section class='photos'> <figure class='photo'> <a href="https://viewing.nyc/thursday-may-26th-2022-good-afternoon/"> <img width="640" alt="Brooklyn Bridge Park, DUMBO, New York" src="https://cdn.viewing.nyc/arg47zjk2paedoxkky4858g8cjkm" /> </a> </figure> </section> <section class='content'> <p>Good afternoon! Wishing you a happy <strong>Thursday, May 26th, 2022</strong> from all of us at Viewing NYC!</p> <p>Here&#39;s what the weather looks like in the City right now.</p> </section> <section class='iframe'> <iframe src='https://forecast.io/embed/#lat=40.7483651&amp;lon=-73.9856121&amp;name=New%20York%20City&amp;color=%23f7b731&amp;font=Arial' width=640 height='360' scrolling='no' webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen></iframe> </section> <section> <p> <small><em>The post <a href="https://viewing.nyc/thursday-may-26th-2022-good-afternoon/">Thursday, May 26th, 2022, Good Afternoon!</a> appeared first on <a href="https://viewing.nyc/">Viewing NYC</a></em></small> </p> </section> </div> </article> urn:uuid:4376c5f9-a963-4400-9496-849f8f2355e3 2022-03-09T14:00:00-05:00 2026-03-29T19:53:19-04:00

Good afternoon! Wishing you a happy Wednesday, March 9th, 2022 from all of us at Viewing NYC! Here's what the weather looks like in the City right now.

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Wishing you a happy <strong>Wednesday, March 9th, 2022</strong> from all of us at Viewing NYC!</p> <p>Here&#39;s what the weather looks like in the City right now.</p> </section> <section class='iframe'> <iframe src='https://forecast.io/embed/#lat=40.7483651&amp;lon=-73.9856121&amp;name=New%20York%20City&amp;color=%23f7b731&amp;font=Arial' width=640 height='360' scrolling='no' webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen></iframe> </section> <section> <p> <small><em>The post <a href="https://viewing.nyc/wednesday-march-9th-2022-good-afternoon/">Wednesday, March 9th, 2022, Good Afternoon!</a> appeared first on <a href="https://viewing.nyc/">Viewing NYC</a></em></small> </p> </section> </div> </article> urn:uuid:e6a31015-16b4-41d6-8356-649b755c81f1 2022-01-18T12:00:00-05:00 2026-03-29T20:02:20-04:00

Gifted to the United States in 1885 to celebrate and commemorate our centennial anniversary the following year, the Statue of Liberty originally arrived in pieces, displayed around New York…

Matt Coneybeare https://viewing.nyc/authors/coneybeare/ <article class='post'> <div class='entry-content'> <section class='iframe'> <iframe src='https://gifs.com/embed/above-new-york-statue-of-liberty-and-liberty-island-l5Qj67' width=640 height='360' scrolling='no' webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen></iframe> </section> <section class='content'> <p>Gifted to the United States in 1885 to celebrate and commemorate our centennial anniversary the following year, the <a href="https://www.nps.gov/stli/index.htm">Statue of Liberty</a> originally arrived in pieces, displayed around <a href="https://viewing.nyc/vintage-photographs-of-the-status-of-liberty-under-construction-circa-1880s/">New York City</a> to raise support for the financing of the pedestal. With a campaign and donation matching request led by newspaper tycoon <a href="https://viewing.nyc/drunk-history-stumbles-through-the-story-behind-frederic-bartholdi-and-the-statue-of-liberty/">Joseph Pulitzer</a>, the fundraising efforts took over 10 years to determine a permanent location for the statue and to raise enough to pay for its pedestal, as the United States Congress refused to finance it.</p> <p>Standing at just over 151-feet-tall, Lady Liberty is the tallest statue in the United States. She is mounted on the massive star shaped footprint and pedestal, which gives her a total height of 305-feet, 1-inch from ground level to torch, allowing her to be seen from anywhere with a clean line-of-sight in New York City and parts of New Jersey.</p> <p>The Statue of Liberty National Monument sits on the aptly named Liberty Island and is managed by the <a href="https://www.nps.gov">United States National Park Service</a>. The land was originally known to New Yorkers as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_Island">Bedloe&#39;s Island</a>, only being renamed to Liberty Island in 1956 by and act of the United Stated Congress. The island was private for a century following the Dutch surrender of Fort Amsterdam to the British in 1664, where the original owner, Captain Robert Needham, sold it to the namesake Isaac Bedloe. It shifted hands privately and to businesses until February 1758, when the City of New York purchased the island for one thousand pounds to hold terminally ill patients with infectious diseases.</p> <p>After the United States won independence, the star-shaped Fort Wood was constructed on the island and was completed in 1811. Never used for battle, the aging fort was mostly dismantled for the mounting of the Statue of Liberty and pedestal, which maintained the original 11-point footprint for its foundation.</p> <p>In this short aerial video from our <a href="https://viewing.nyc/categories/above-new-york/">Above New York</a> series, see the Statue of Liberty and Liberty Island from a unique birds-eye-view on a gloomy day in New York Harbor. This is likely one of the last times you will see a drone video shot this close to the Statue of Liberty, as the <a href="https://www.faa.gov">FAA</a> and <a href="https://www.doi.gov/">DOI</a> have recently imposed special <a href="https://www.faa.gov/news/updates/?newsId=88811&omniRss=news_updatesAoc&cid=101_N_U">restrictions</a> on the proximity of flight to this, and other U.S. National Monuments. This video was captured before the new restrictions took effect.</p> </section> <section class='videos'> <div class='video'> <a href="https://viewing.nyc/video-above-new-york-statue-of-liberty-and-liberty-island/"> <img width="640" src="https://cdn.viewing.nyc/r3guib8vrnuvkbdubj58j6l53q7u" /> </a> </div> </section> <section class='content'> <p class='minimal'>Music: <a href="https://soundcloud.com/pogomix/release">"Release" by Pogo</a></p> </section> <section> <p> <small><em>The post <a href="https://viewing.nyc/video-above-new-york-statue-of-liberty-and-liberty-island/">[VIDEO] Above New York: Statue of Liberty and Liberty Island</a> appeared first on <a href="https://viewing.nyc/">Viewing NYC</a></em></small> </p> </section> </div> </article> urn:uuid:e4c1e4c0-60a5-4557-bf74-a4118c7559ca 2021-11-13T18:00:00-05:00 2026-03-29T20:11:54-04:00

Good evening! Wishing you a happy Saturday, November 13th, 2021 from all of us at Viewing NYC! Here's what the weather looks like in the City right now.

Matt Coneybeare https://viewing.nyc/authors/coneybeare/ <article class='post'> <div class='entry-content'> <section class='photos'> <figure class='photo'> <a href="https://viewing.nyc/saturday-november-13th-2021-good-evening/"> <img width="640" alt="Fearless Girl, Financial District, Manhattan" src="https://cdn.viewing.nyc/1vyhkgmz3g2gaun87brm974g74y1" /> </a> </figure> </section> <section class='content'> <p>Good evening! Wishing you a happy <strong>Saturday, November 13th, 2021</strong> from all of us at Viewing NYC!</p> <p>Here&#39;s what the weather looks like in the City right now.</p> </section> <section class='iframe'> <iframe src='https://forecast.io/embed/#lat=40.7483651&amp;lon=-73.9856121&amp;name=New%20York%20City&amp;color=%23f7b731&amp;font=Arial' width=640 height='360' scrolling='no' webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen></iframe> </section> <section> <p> <small><em>The post <a href="https://viewing.nyc/saturday-november-13th-2021-good-evening/">Saturday, November 13th, 2021, Good Evening!</a> appeared first on <a href="https://viewing.nyc/">Viewing NYC</a></em></small> </p> </section> </div> </article> urn:uuid:af6d5418-3139-47a9-b840-79b68e40f5f2 2021-06-04T10:00:00-04:00 2026-03-29T20:41:04-04:00

Good morning! Wishing you a happy Friday, June 4th, 2021 from all of us at Viewing NYC! Here's what the weather looks like in the City right now.

Matt Coneybeare https://viewing.nyc/authors/coneybeare/ <article class='post'> <div class='entry-content'> <section class='photos'> <figure class='photo'> <a href="https://viewing.nyc/friday-june-4th-2021-good-morning/"> <img width="640" alt="&quot;The Garment Worker&quot; and &quot;Needle Threading a Button&quot;, 7th Avenue and 39th Street, Garment District, Manhattan" src="https://cdn.viewing.nyc/bannbrxgkisu2ogrwasbbt4wy9lq" /> </a> </figure> </section> <section class='content'> <p>Good morning! Wishing you a happy <strong>Friday, June 4th, 2021</strong> from all of us at Viewing NYC!</p> <p>Here&#39;s what the weather looks like in the City right now.</p> </section> <section class='iframe'> <iframe src='https://forecast.io/embed/#lat=40.7483651&amp;lon=-73.9856121&amp;name=New%20York%20City&amp;color=%23f7b731&amp;font=Arial' width=640 height='360' scrolling='no' webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen></iframe> </section> <section> <p> <small><em>The post <a href="https://viewing.nyc/friday-june-4th-2021-good-morning/">Friday, June 4th, 2021, Good Morning!</a> appeared first on <a href="https://viewing.nyc/">Viewing NYC</a></em></small> </p> </section> </div> </article> urn:uuid:038fd7b7-9fc0-473b-9664-17de4327774f 2021-03-17T12:00:00-04:00 2026-03-29T20:54:52-04:00

A new statue of Ruth Bader Ginsburg was erected in Brooklyn, NY, just days before what would have been the late Supreme Court justice’s 88th birthday.

Matt Coneybeare https://viewing.nyc/authors/coneybeare/ <article class='post'> <div class='entry-content'> <section class='videos'> <div class='video'> <a href="https://viewing.nyc/video-ruth-bader-ginsburg-statue-unveiled-in-downtown-brooklyn/"> <img width="640" src="https://cdn.viewing.nyc/u91xa3jdqsqa59txtrlf8r87uj93" /> </a> </div> </section> <section class='content'> <blockquote> <p>A new statue of Ruth Bader Ginsburg was erected in Brooklyn, NY, just days before what would have been the late Supreme Court justice’s 88th birthday.</p> </blockquote> </section> <section> <p> <small><em>The post <a href="https://viewing.nyc/video-ruth-bader-ginsburg-statue-unveiled-in-downtown-brooklyn/">[VIDEO] Ruth Bader Ginsburg Statue Unveiled in Downtown Brooklyn</a> appeared first on <a href="https://viewing.nyc/">Viewing NYC</a></em></small> </p> </section> </div> </article>