A giant 12-foot-tall bronze sculpture of a young Black woman now sits on the north side of Duffy Square on Broadway and 46th Street facing 47th Street.

The accident left her fused from her skull down to her pelvis, and she can no longer shift her head in any direction. “I'm literally a human statue,” she said. “My spine doesn't move at all.

The statue of Athena had been housed in William Weddell's estate in England since the 1700s. Halsted A&A Foundation. With an owl in the palm of her hand, a cloak adorned with a gorgon’s head and ...