{"id":345070,"date":"2026-09-12T16:18:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T16:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/345070\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T16:18:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T16:18:12","slug":"charlie-kirk-life-size-statue-displayed-in-times-square-on-death-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/345070\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlie Kirk life-size statue displayed in Times Square on death anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/gettyimages-2294575278-594x594-1.jpg\" alt=\"Photo by Andrew Lichtenstein\/Corbis via Getty Image\" width=\"764\" height=\"432\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-v-653d32e2=\"\"\/> article <\/p>\n<p data-v-653d32e2=\"\">NEW YORK, NEW YORK &#8211; SEPTEMBER 10: A statue of Charlie Kirk is unveiled in Times Square on the one-year anniversary of Kirk&#8217;s assassination, September 10, 2026 in New York City. Italian-born artist Sergio Furnari made the statue of the controversial  <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">MANHATTAN &#8211; A life-size statue honoring late conservative activist Charlie Kirk was put on display in Times Square on Sept. 10, 2026, marking exactly one year since he was killed.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Supporters gathered around the Manhattan installation to commemorate the Turning Point USA founder. Sculptor Sergio Furnari created the piece, spending $100,000 on materials.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WNYW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The life-size statue shows Kirk seated with a microphone, capturing his likeness as a public speaker and political commentator. Furnari put the final touches on the monument in his Queens studio before bringing it to Manhattan for the Sept. 10 display.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Conservative figures and supporters joined Furnari in Times Square as people stopped to view the piece and pay their respects throughout the day.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WNYW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">The backstory:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Kirk was killed on Sept. 10, 2025, during an appearance on a college campus in Utah. Following his death, Furnari began hand-crafting the monument in New York City to commemorate the activist and mark the one-year anniversary of the event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: This article was written using information from Storyful and Frontlines TPUSA via Storyful.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/tag\/us\/ny\/nyc\/manhattan\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Manhattan<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article NEW YORK, NEW YORK &#8211; SEPTEMBER 10: A statue of Charlie Kirk is unveiled in Times Square&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75,9,11,10,12,56,63,618],"class_list":["post-345070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-manhattan","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-news","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}