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TIL: The Statue That Offended New York was a nickname for a realistic nude sculpted by Augustus Saint-Gaudens that circa 1900 stood on the city's highest point. A critic said the nearby park's character changed: kids displaced by "club men...with field glasses.” (The art was later sent to a museum.)

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