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Migrant garment workers arrive at Mawa ferry ghat on their way towards Dhaka, Bangladeah, April 30, 2020.
The Garment Worker, an eight-foot bronze sculpture by Judith Weller, was installed at 555 Seventh Avenue in 1984 to honor the area’s history as the Garment District. The sculpture, depicting an immigrant man at a sewing machine, was inspired by Weller’s smaller 1978 piece of her tailor father, which she submitted to the National Sculpture Society exhibition. The larger version was sponsored by the Ladies Garment Workers Union to commemorate the Jewish garment workers who were central to New York’s garment industry.