In ancient Greece, temptation was personified by the female form - a siren. If you are over 16 years of age, you may understand this. The sirens represent vice and corruption - the two main temptations of any civic leader.
Well, anyway, the statue was erected in 1922, outside of City Hall in Manhattan. Mayor La Guardia got tired of looking at the thing and moved it to the Queens Borough Hall in 1941.
Some of the locals think that the statue is sexist. I like to call these people Urban Rednecks. They are culturally bankrupt. You see, Civic Vice & Corruption are the world's biggest problems. We didn't invent them, but we are perfecting and fine tuning them, every day!
So, a lot of the New Yorkers want nothing to do with the statue. A privately owned cemetery says that it will take the statue. New Yorkers don't like it but they don't want to give it away! Former Congressman Anthony Weiner once suggested that it should be sold on E-Bay! (Isn't that what Sarah Palin did with Alaska's Governor's jets?)
So, the irony continues. The politicians don't see the meaning of the sculpture and the public doesn't embrace the beauty and ancient symbolism of the creation.
Pigeons aren't complaining. They get it!
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