Statue of Abraham de Peyster at Bowling Green Park

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Bowling Green and Lower Broadway Skyscrapers. July 1936. Photo. Berenice Abbott.Abraham de Peyster (July 8, 1657 – August 3, 1728) was the 20th Mayor of New York City from 1691 to 1694.His great-great-great grandson was John Watts de Peyster, who commissioned the statue of his ancestor in the late 19th century.Sculpted by George Edwin Bissell, the statue was originally placed in Bowling Green Park in Manhattan in the late 1890s. Park and subway renovations forced its removal in 1972, and it was placed in Hanover Square from 1976 until 2004. During subsequent renovations in Hanover Square, the statue was placed in a warehouse for 9 years. In the fall of 2013, it was restored to public view in its current location in Thomas Paine Park near the Supreme Court building.