12 TIMES • MAY 12, 2016 FOR BREAKING NEWS VISIT www.QNS.com editorial 22 THE COURIER SUN • MAY 12, 2016 FOR BREAKING VISIT www.qns.com to honor a local heroine sun WWW.COURIERSUN.COM Font: Engravers Old English Normal VICTORIA SCHNEPS-YUNIS JOSHUA A. SCHNEPS BOB BRENNAN ROBERT POZARYCKI AMY AMATO-SANCHEZ NIRMAL SINGH STEPHEN REINA RON TORINA, JONATHAN RODRIGUEZ, CHERYL GALLAGHER KATRINA MEDOFF, ANTHONY GIUDICE, ANGELA MATUA BRIANNA ELLIS KATARINA HYBENOVA CLIFF KASDEN, SAMANTHA SOHMER, ELIZABETH ALONI JACLYN HERTLING DEBORAH CUSICK WARREN SUSSMAN CELESTE ALAMIN MARIA VALENCIA VICTORIA SCHNEPS-YUNIS JOSHUA A. 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SNAPS QUEENS Baby Duck in the Lake // PHOTO BY MICHELLE LONG Send us your photos of Queens and you could see them online or in our paper! Submit them to us tag @queenscourier on Instagram, Facebook page, tweeting @queenscourier or by emailing editorial@qns.com (subject: Queens Snaps). The chance to honor a local heroine At long last, the city is starting to renovate the Kew Gardens fountain where the controversial Civic Virtue statue once stood. Along with being beautifi ed, the site is being re-dedicated to the women of Queens. This will be noted on a plaque installed at the site. It is fi tting and proper that the site be re-dedicated considering that so many people found Civic Virtue — a marble sculpture of a male fi gure representing virtue standing over two female sirens depicting vice and corruption — to be sexist. For those who still feel that the statue’s removal in 2012 was an act of political correctness, it should be noted that the same concerns about the statue were voiced decades earlier, soon after Civic Virtue debuted at its original home at City Hall. No one would ever suggest the early 20th century was a politically correct time in our history. Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia got tired of seeing the statue’s backside and had it moved to Queens Borough Hall in 1940. When Queens residents got tired of the statue’s misogynistic representations in 2012, the city had it moved to Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn. Honoring the women of Queens is noble, but the former Civic Virtue site should also feature a statue of a prominent woman in the borough’s rich history. A new statue, however, is not in the current renovation plans, according to the Queens borough president’s offi ce. Of course, that doesn’t mean it can’t be done in the future. There are few public statues in New York City that honor historic women. Reportedly, there are just fi ve — all of them in Manhattan — honoring Joan of Arc, Eleanor Roosevelt, Gertrude Stein, Golda Meir and Harriet Tubman. The former Civic Virtue site represents Queens’ golden opportunity to honor a great woman in history, someone whose contributions had a profound impact both locally and nationally. We can think of no better candidate for a statue than Geraldine Ferraro, a former teacher at an Astoria public school who later became a prosecutor in the Queens District Attorney’s offi ce and then represented Queens on Capitol Hill. Ferraro was a rising star in Washington in 1984 when presidential candidate Walter Mondale chose her as his vice presidential running mate. In doing so, Ferraro became the fi rst woman in American history to be nominated to a major political party’s presidential ticket. Mondale and Ferraro would lose the 1984 election, but Ferraro’s candidacy would pave the way for women to become leaders on the national political scene. In her later years and following her death in 2012, Ferraro’s legacy was honored with the renaming of a Long Island City post offi ce and a Forest Hills street. We believe that the time has come to give someone with such a profound impact on Queens and the U.S. an even greater tribute. A LOOK BACK Here’s an oldie but goodie straight out of the Roaring Twenties in Ridgewood. Courtesy of the Facebook page “You must have lived in Ridgewood if you remember...,” take a look at the stretch of St. Nicholas Avenue near Palmetto Street during the 1920s. In the background is the domed roof of the Ridgewood Grove Arena, which once hosted boxing and wrestling matches among other sporting events. 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