Closing Bell: Preservation Work for Military Monuments in the Rockaways

This week, the Citywide Monuments Conservation Program is dedicating its field team to perform preservation of several military monuments in the Rockaways. The monuments include the bronze sculpture of a World War I infantryman, crafted in 1927, at Rockaway Beach Boulevard and 94th Street. Facing that work is the Rockaway Women’s Veterans Monument, a bronze effigy of a female soldier dressed in military fatigues. And in Belle Harbor, there is the Flight 587 Memorial and remembrance plaza (pictured above) honoring those who lost their lives in a plane crash nearby on November 12th, 2001. The preservation work consists of cleaning, recoating bronze statuary and markers, and other mediation. The field team will start this Wednesday with the goal to finish prior to Veterans Day on November 11th and the anniversary of the Flight 587 crash on November 12th.

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