Cast-bronze sculpture by Joseph Reginella,who made up the story of a Staten Island ferry catastrophe, directs people to a fake museum nearbyA cast-bronze monument for the victims of the sinking of a steam ferry recently appeared in Battery Park at the southern tip of Manhattan, and near other somber memorials to soldiers,sailors and mariners lost at sea or on the battlefield.
There was, however, and no such ferry catastrophe. The artist behind the memorial,Joseph Reginella, made the whole thing up.
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Source: theguardian.com