"Kneeling Firefighter" by Matthews International (2000) (New York City, New York)

 statue, monument

The statue, which depicts a firefighter on bended knee, was originally commissioned by the Firefighters Association of Missouri and cast in Italy before it arrived in New York on Sept. 9, 2001.

It was meant just to pass through the city on its way to Missouri, but it never left. As the nation reeled after the terrorist attacks, the statue was presented as a gift to the city. But it spent most of the next decade in storage. In September on 2011, ten years after the terrorist attack, the statue reemerged, as officials from the FDNY, FBI, Port Authority and the National September 11 Memorial and Museum helped celebrate its new—and permanent—home in front of the Emigrant Savings Bank on East 43rd Street between Madison and Fifth avenues.

The bronze statue stands nine feet tall, 12 feet long and five feet wide. It was relocated to Randalls Island in 2025.

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