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A statue of Christopher Columbus was a memorial in Washington Park in Newark, New Jersey, United States within the James Street Commons Historic District. It was made in Rome by Giuseppe Ciochetti and presented to the city by Newark's Italians in 1927.[1][2][3][4] The statue was removed (with pedestal left in place) in June 2020.[5]

Statue of Christopher Columbus
The statue in 2020
Subject	Christopher Columbus
Location	Newark, New Jersey, U.S.
Coordinates	40°44′36.43″N 74°10′11.61″W

A second statue of Columbus in Newark, also ordered removed by Mayor Ras Baraka, was subsequently re-erected in Sussex County, New Jersey.[6]

The pedestal of the statue will be incorporated into a new work called A Shadow of a Face, a memorial to Harriet Tubman.[7]

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  Base after statue removal

See also

• List of monuments and memorials removed during the George Floyd protests
• List of public art in Newark, New Jersey

References

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