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‘Stonebreakers’ confronts some of the nation’s most contested statues and symbols, including those celebrating the Confederacy.

The statue is in Doris C. Freedman Plaza near 60th Street and 5th Avenue until August 2022.

The pieces will be on view through October.

Central Park now has its first statue representing real women.

“It’s a celebration of a liberation that never really came. The fact is it’s also a day of reckoning,” de Blasio said.

The news has raised speculation that Finkelpearl's exit was the result of the harsh criticism over the city’s handling of public monuments.

The issue has reignited a long-running debate over who gets the ultimate say in determining the images and symbols that appear in public spaces.

Many, including Gloria Steinem, criticized the original statue for only including white women.

'The LGBTQ movement was portrayed very much as a white, gay male movement... This monument counters that trend of whitewashing the history.'

Here are the five choices for the Shirley Chisholm monument coming to Brooklyn.