When it comes to New York monuments, we are all gynophiles. The Parisian bod lurking under Lady Liberty's toe-length frock has long been the source of febrile speculation and intrigue. Fortunately, an eccentric Russian has gifted the world's largest vagina to Jersey City, as if to fill in the blanks of our imagination.
For those coming in from the Atlantic, through the Narrows, the Russian gift now heaves into view well before Lady Liberty. That is intentional, according to Zurab Tsereteli, the Moscow-based sculptor who created the monument. “To the Struggle Against World Terrorism” stands at the end of a long, man-made peninsula in Bayonne, New Jersey, and it looks from a distance like a giant tea biscuit. As you get closer, however, you will begin to make out an immense, stainless-steel teardrop—the Tear of Grief—hanging in a jagged crack that runs down the middle of the main slab. That’s when you’ll know that you’re not looking at some ordinary bronze-sheathed, hundred-and-seventy-five-ton afternoon snack.
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