Manhattan Express - July 26, 2018

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Time’s Up for Trump 05

25-to-Life in ‘93 West Side Murder 08

Losing Battles, Supertall Opponents Hope to Win the War

Cyclists In Fight Against Cancer 11

CENTRAL PARK HONORS WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE And Its Complicated History

Photo by Glenn Castellano/ New-York Historical Society

Meredith Bergmann’s model for her statue of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony to be installed in Central Park in 2020.

Courtesy of DDG Partners

DDG’s rendering of its tower nearing completion at 180 E. 88th St. at Third Ave.

BY SYDNEY PEREIRA Elected officials and community groups on the Upper East and West Sides went head to head with the developers of two uptown towers at the city’s Board of Standards and Appeals (BSA) last week — and though both buildings seem likely to be completed, there is a chance a new zoning precedent could be established to prevent future comparable projects. Opponents of new towers at 200 Amsterdam Ave., just below W. 70th St., and 180 East 88th St., near Third Ave. — the latter nearly completed — say that SUPERTALL continued on p. 4

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BY SYDNEY PEREIRA Meredith Bergmann, a sculptor for more than 40 years, has been selected as the artist who will create the first Central Park statues representing non-fictional women. Last year, the city’s Parks Department announced plans for a monument honoring women’s suffrage movement leaders Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, and the design Bergmann presented in winning the commission depicts the two working alongside one another. “I finally decided that it was really the relationship between these two women and how intensively they worked as one unit for many years,” Bergmann said. “It was inspiring and admirable to think of them working in this way.” A lengthy scroll — expected to spill some 22 feet down to an old-fashioned ballot box — will pay

homage to and be inscribed with quotes from other women who were a part of the fight for women’s rights. Lucretia Mott, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Sojourner Truth, Lucy Stone, Ida B. Wells, Anna Howard Shaw, and Alice Paul are among the women who will be recognized as representative of the women’s rights movement of which Stanton and Anthony — who both died before the 19th Amendment gave women the right to vote — have become the most widely known symbols. “They didn’t live to see it,” Bergmann said. “That’s also why the scroll is necessary.” Mott, Gage, Truth, Stone, and Shaw also died before women’s suffrage became a reality. Roughly 90 percent of the city’s public monuments WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE continued on p. 20

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