Seen & Heard: Special Forces Monument

••• This photo popped up on the World Financial Center’s Facebook page today, along with this text: “The iconic horse, De Oppresso Liber, stopped by the WFC today! This majestic statue stands as testament to the dedicated service of the United States Military on Veterans Day.” And when I was there to today to check out Canstruction, I saw that the Winter Garden was closed this afternoon and evening. So it looks like that monument is going somewhere outside the WFC? WAIT! Just came across this on the New York Times: “One of the guest stars in the Veterans Day Parade on Friday is a 5,000-pound statue that just arrived in New York and still needs a permanent home. The statue, a 16-foot-tall bronze of a Special Forces soldier on horseback, may wind up in Zuccotti Park in Lower Manhattan once the protesters camped there depart. But for now, it is bound for a temporary spot in a building a block from the World Trade Center site.” Would’ve been nice if Brookfield had answered my question last month….

••• Tribeca Tap House is open. I’ve reached out to write something longer, which may or may not happen. Not sure it needs the publicity: I stopped by last night around 7 p.m. and it was packed.

••• The leaner, meaner Battery Park City Authority will host a town hall at 6:45 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 17 at P.S. 276 (55 Battery Pl.)

••• The event space at 56 Walker appears to be going as the Boom Room. So it’s like the famous Boom Boom Room, but with half the Boom?

 

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