Apparently, there's trouble in my old Brooklyn 'hood. Somewhere in Kensington, someone has done unspeakable things to a Lady Liberty statue belonging to cafe and neighborhood soapbox Vox Pop.
Intriguingly traumatized by the situation, den mother Debi Ryan announced yesterday that notable Manhattan restaurant One If By Land, Two If By Sea extended a secondhand Liberty from its 17 Barrow Street location and Vox Pop accepted.
"It was the support of one restaurant to another that resonated so strongly," says Ryan.
This Sunday, July 19, Vox Pop and One If By Land, Two If By Sea will host a "Bringing Liberty Home" soiree at 1 pm. Representatives from both camps and supporters of the gesture will assemble at 17 Barrow Street and escort the eight-foot statue, via a march over the Brooklyn Bridge in a dolly, to its new home on Cortelyou Road.
"This walk will symbolize the bridge between the two restaurants, the bridge between the two boroughs, and the bridge between people working together for a common cause," says Ryan. And once again, the Victorian Flatbush area will have the solar panel-lit torch of Lady Liberty illuminating the Great Recession's petty crimes of frustration.
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Check out my Vox Pop memories here.
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