BY COLIN MIXSON
Mind the arch!
The area beneath Grand
Army Plaza’s Soldiers’ and
Sailors’ Arch will be off limits
to locals until after a massive
restoration of the monument
wraps sometime in 2021, due
to the risk of falling debris, according
to stewards of Brooklyn’s
Backyard.
“The barricades are expected
to remain in place until
the restoration of the arch
is completed,” said Deborah
Kirschner, a spokeswoman for
meadow conservancy the Prospect
Park Alliance.
Alliance workers cordoned
off the area beneath
the 126-year-old arch after a
small piece of mortar roughly
two-inches long fell from the
monument last December,
Kirschner said.
The rubble did not hit anyone,
but park keepers still
chose to restrict access to the
arch out of “an abundance
of caution,” according to the
spokeswoman, who said nothing
has fallen since the fi rst
piece of mortar.
Alliance leaders plan to
kick off their year-long, $9-million
restoration of the Civil
War memorial in 2020 , which
includes repairing stonework
throughout the ancient arch,
as well as replacing its rooftop
observation deck and fi xing
the iron staircase leading to it.
Following the city-funded
repairs, locals will be able
to enter the arch for the fi rst
time since leaders of the Puppet
BLOCKADE: Workers barricaded the space beneath the Grand Army Plaza arch, preventing pedestrians from
passing through. Photo by Colin Mixson
Museum that formerly occupied
space inside it moved
their institution to Brooklyn
College in 2010.
The restoration project
also calls for sprucing up the
pavement around the arch,
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and installing landscaping
and lights around the plaza’s
Bailey Fountain.
Workers last repaired the
arch, which turns 127-yearsold
on Oct. 21, in 1980, seven
years after the city designated
the structure a landmark, and
roughly four years after the
statue of Columbia — a goddess
like fi gure symbolizing
the United States — fell from
its sculpted chariot atop the
monument in 1976.
Curve fall
Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Arch
cordoned off through 2021
after debris drops from it
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