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On the sign:
HORACE GREELEY
THE STATUE OF THE FIRST PRESIDENT NEW YORK TYPOGRAPHICAL UNION NO 6 WAS PRESENTED TO THE CITY OF NEW YORK BY HORACE GREELEY POST NO 577 G A R NEW YORK TYPOGRAPHICAL UNION NO. 6 AND BROOKLYN TYPOGRAPHICAL UNION NO 98
The statue of the founder of the New York Tribune, and a candidate for the presidency of the United States, is in a square named after him, and was made by the sculptor Alexander Doyle in 1890.