Photos: 25+ Veterans Monuments Gets Spruced Up by NYC Parks Conservation Team Ahead of Veterans Day

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NYC Parks’ Citywide Monuments conservators were hard at work to preserve more than 25 war memorials ahead of Veterans Day. Parks’ bronze sculptures have been cleaned and rewaxed to make them shine in honor of our veterans.  

1 – 4) Monuments staff buffing wax coating on the Bushwick-Ridgewood Memorial doughboy at Heisser Square in Brooklyn;  

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5) The Freedom Square, Queens, Memorial angel figure cleaned and waxed;   

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6) Bronx Victory Memorial, Pelham Bay Park;  

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7) Parks Conservator buffing wax on Winfield War Memorial, Queens;  

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8) Monument at Father Duffy Square, Manhattan;  

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9) Victory figure getting a bubble bath at Bloomindale Road on Staten Island.  

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Launched in 1997, the Citywide Monuments Conservation Program is a public-private partnership that provides low-cost, professional expertise in maintaining NYC Parks’ extensive collections of monuments and permanent outdoor art. Since its inception, the program has conserved 80 sculptures and provided full-scale, high-quality annual care for more than 500 additional sculptures and monuments.