Though Vladimir Ilyich Lenin may have lost his footing in the
former Soviet Union, he has found a skyline home in New York.
Standing resolute on the roof of a luxury apartment block in
Alphabet City, he faces south and west toward the World Trade
Center, the city's tallest monument to capitalism.
The 18-foot bronze statue was erected last September by Michael
Rosen, a developer and a former social anthropologist at New York
University. A capitalist with a Marxian understanding of power,
Rosen ...
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