The eight-foot tall, one-ton bronze statue was created by sculptor Clete Shields.

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DCM's woes stem largely from the station, which features giant steel arches that soar over a large train hall, and the 1, 776-foot-tall One World Trade Center.

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One such example is the seven-foot-tall charcoal drawing by contemporary American artist Robert Longo.

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Standing just 4-foot-6 tall, it's one of the smallest on the course and benefits from a long run-in.

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Locker rooms and lunchrooms in Department of Sanitation garages are elaborately decorated with found lamps, couches, desks, chairs, sports memorabilia and one-of-a-kind junk, like a foot-tall skiing Santa that sings "Jingle Bells" and gyrates like Elvis.

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It has twelve-foot-tall tires, and its cab sits twenty-one feet off the ground.

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One floor up another large batch is brewing in a dozen 3-foot-tall metal vats.

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No one thinks twice about the Phillie Phanatic zipping across the field on his motorbike or 7-foot tall sausages racing around Milwaukee's Miller Park.

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In 2005, Theriault's auctioned one of the most spectacular, a piece by Gustave Vichy in which a three-foot-tall acrobat grasping two chairs appears to defy gravity.

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