NYC seamstress, 95, reunited with long-lost Garment District statue of herself from decades ago
NY Post
It’s a stitch in time.
A 95-year-old former master seamstress was reunited Wednesday with a long-lost statue of herself that stood for nearly four decades in the lobby of the Garment District suit company where she once worked.
The life-sized plaster likeness of Maria Pulsone — which will soon go on display at the Italian American Museum — was found by her granddaughter, who waged an online odyssey to find the artwork in a dusty warehouse in Scranton, Pa.
“Growing up I always knew there was this statue of my grandmother when she was a New York City seamstress. I was always curious about it,” her granddaughter, Jennifer Pulsone Heppner, 41, told The Post.
The now-retired nonagenarian got to see the statue — which captures her in the act of sewing with a look of firm concentration on her face — at a ceremony at the Mulberry Street museum Wednesday. She showed she was still all business when asked what she thought of the honor.
“Eh, it’s alright,” she said flatly.
