A sculpture honoring one of New York’s most enduring legends — sewer alligators — was unveiled last week in the heart of the city.
Artist Alexander Klingspor talks about his sculpture “N.Y.C. Legend,” a 1,320-pound bronze work celebrating one of New York's most enduring myths: the sewer alligator. Legend has it that the alligators started out as the tiny, cute playthings of children. But when they grew too big, parents flushed them down toilets, sending them deep into the bowels of the city’s sewers.Abandoned to New York’s underbelly, the alligators did not wither and die. Nourished by trash and rats, they grew.
Klingspor, who lived in New York for more than a decade until moving to London in 2019, said he sought to honor New Yorkers with his work, seeing a parallel between the city’s residents and alligators, which have evolved and adapted over millions of years and “have to survive extremes, just like New Yorkers.”
Klingspor, 46, said the idea came to him while visiting an anthropological museum in Mexico City. As he looked at the sculptures and artifacts of ancient Mayan and Incan civilizations, he realized human beings for millennia have revered and feared animals as deities. He wondered whether modern-day New Yorkers had done anything like that, even if it was less formal.Klingspor’s mind turned to the sewer alligators. He started researching the origin of the myth.
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