Sergio Furnari said he thought the lifesize sculpture – which no one commissioned – would raise ‘millions’ of dollars

To add injury to insult, Furnari recently broke his foot working on the statue, after tripping over a roll of tape in his studio.

“Is it cursed? Maybe. I don’t know,” he told the Guardian.

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    15 hours ago

    NYC is most definitely not a Democrat stronghold in the sense that it’s expected to go progressive in every election.

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      Since 1960 the republicans have won New York in the presidential election just 3 times, and not once since 1984. That’s 42 years ago.

      It’s a Democrat stronghold if there ever was one.

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        Giuliani was the 2 term mayor during 9/11 from ‘94-‘01, then Bloomberg from ‘02-‘13

        Eric Adams was a DINO for sure