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NYC officials remove Edward Snowden statue secretly installed in Brooklyn park

Snowden-sculpture
A sculpture of Edward Snowden stands atop a column in Brooklyn’s Fort Greene Park on Monday, April 6, 2015.
IMAGE: AYMANN ISMAIL/ANIMALNEWYORK
NEW YORK — Dressed in reflective yellow construction gear while working under the cover of darkness early Monday, a small group of artists installed a tribute to NSA-leaker Edward Snowden in a Brooklyn park.

But it was gone by midday.

The Snowden bust stood atop a column at the Prison Ship Martyrs Monument in Fort Greene Park, a site built to honor more than 11,000 American prisoners of war who died aboard British ships during the American Revolutionary War.