Spirit of Commerce and Spirit of Industry

These larger-than-life granite statuary are located on the north and south pylons on the Manhattan Bridge. The figures represent the Spirit of Commerce and Spirit of Industry.Audrey Munson`s image on the Manhattan Bridge. “All girls cannot be perfect 36s, with bodies of mystic warmth and plastic marble effect, colored with rose and a dash of flame,” she wrote-Hiroko Masuike for The New York Times.With its eight lanes for train, horse-drawn and automobile traffic, it was designed to be a muscle, a working horse, a purely utilitarian structure. However, it caught the attention of the City Beautiful movement, and the Carrère & Hastings architectural firm was engaged to beautify the approaches to the bridge on both sides. The City Beautiful Movement, a reform philosophy in architecture and urban planning that flourished in the United States in the late 19th-early 20th cen. tury