Just Another Businessman

Located across from the World Trade Center, a business man sitting on a bench since 1982 survived the debris from 9/11. This bronze sculpture, Double Check, was made by John Seward Johnson II. It depicts a businessman simply going through his briefcase before heading off to work. Nothing unordinary. However, it became an “iconic stand-in for those who didn’t make it,” after 9/11. For a time, people covered the statue with tributes consisting of flowers, cards, pictures, hard hats, etc.

This public art represents an ordinary New York businessman, but at the same time, a survivor of the World Trade Center attacks. Two polar opposite aspects of New York City and the life within.

Notice the ads placed in his hand and in the briefcase. How "New York!"