September 15, 2007

Roosevelt Island Sabrina, part 2

I wanted to quickly highlight a comment to our earlier post discussing Sabrina’s appearance on Roosevelt Island in New York City.

The author of Roosevelt Island 360 (RI 360), a neat website/blog dedicated to reporting the happenings on and history of that sliver of land in the East River, has kindly given us an update. Although we should have been the ones to reach out to Bruce Becker ‘80 for more information, we are indebted to RI 360, who has done our job for us and received a very nice response by e-mail from Becker.

Becker, after sharing Sabrina’s history with RI 360, reveals how the sculpture arrived on Roosevelt Island:

The castings were made from a mold of 19th Century casting I located in Rochester Vermont that was in perfect condition. The Roosevelt Island installation is the first casting made of solid bronze and is a stunning setting for her, adjacent to the river and The Octagon.

He also notes that other Sabrinas can be found on the sites of several projects designed by his architecture firm, Becker+Becker.

Sabrina has been installed at a number of other projects designed by Becker and Becker over the past 15 years. Copies can be found at the courtyard of a New York City Housing Authority project at Avenue D and 8th Street in Manhattan, the Times Square Hotel, Urban Horizons (the former Morrisania Hospital) in the Bronx, Avalon Grove in Stamford, The Crescent Building in Bridgeport and The Marvin in Norwalk, CT. None of these installations incorporate the original statue which has been the object of class rivalries at Amherst College.

RI 360 closes its post on the topic by suggesting that a student or alumnus should approach Becker about photographs of the various Sabrinas for a web collage. A great idea, but it might be more fun to work a self guided Sabrina tour into your next trip to the New York metropolitan area and experience some of them yourself. If any Amherst undergrad (or alumn) would like to be our correspondent and take on that road trip, we’d love to see any Sabrina photos that you take.

Dave Nardolillo '98 | September 15, 2007 11:04 AM | Amherstiana | History

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