The depth of field in this image is extraordinary. My guess lens was stopped down to f64. How shutter speed was calculated says much about the photographer's expertise.

At West 18th Street. More here.

Lady Republic and her fountain have been ripped out and replaced by four kiosks: Jewelry by Joon Sohng, Your Portrait in a Flash, Nail Talk, and Cellphone Heaven.

Here is the 24-foot version in Chicago mentioned by Michael R.

This "Republic" is a miniature version of the original 65-foot statue that Daniel Chester French made for the World's Columbian Exposition, held in Chicago in 1893. The original stood in the middle of the waters of the Fair's Beaux-Arts centerpiece, the Court of Honor. Today a smaller replica in gilded bronze, 24 feet high, stands near that site in Jackson Park. Incidentally, the designer of the pedestal for the original at the Chicago Fair was the architect Henry Bacon; this foreshadows the later collaboration between French and Bacon which produced Washington's Lincoln Memorial.

Now housing a Bed Bath & Beyond and TJ Maxx.