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Mayor Bill de Palacio told a news conference on Friday that New York City should not reconsider the commission’s decision to keep the Christopher Columbus statue near Central Park in place.

Asked if he was concerned about residents taking matters into their own hands, de Palacio said, “The important point is that as a city we need to move forward on many fronts,” detailing the city’s priorities: keeping people safe, getting people to support their livelihoods, and taking up reform the police

New York State Governor Andrew Como yesterday defended the statue, saying It represents the Italian-American Contribution to New York.

about this topic: In January 2018, the Mayoral Advisory Committee recommended that the city’s art, monuments, and city marks maintain the monument and take additional measures to enhance public debate about the polarized character.

In their report to the city, the committee said: “The committee believes that when a memorial under review raises polarized debate, the city must facilitate more public dialogue through a number of measures and then reassess the situation after a period of time.”

These additional measures included commissioning of new relics for “groups of excluded persons”, temporary artworks in response to the heritage and history represented by Christopher Columbus and the annual recognition of Indigenous Day.

Confederate statues landed throughout the country, some of them Columbus was also dismantled. Columbus has long been a controversial figure in history for his treatment of the indigenous communities he faced and his role in violent colonialism at their expense.