Two topless ladies in Chinatown

Greeting passersby and residents for more than 100 years, these legless (and partially armless) figures show modest, slightly troubled expressions on their faces.

I wonder what they have witnessed over the years.

Tags: Chinatown tenements, sculptures on buildings in New York City, street art in New York, tenement figures, Tenement sculptures, Unusual buildings in Chinatown

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One Response to “Two topless ladies in Chinatown”

The pugs of East Seventh Street « Ephemeral New York Says:
March 8, 2010 at 12:33 am | Reply
[…] The pugs of East Seventh Street By wildnewyork I’ve seen New York tenement stoops flanked by carvings of lions, grotesques, dragons, even topless women. […]

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