After considerable nagging from Representative Anthony Weiner, the federal government has hired a contractor to determine what it will take to reopen the Statue of Liberty's crown, which has been closed since 9/11. The study will cost $150,000, but Weiner, who's running for Mayor in '09, tells the Daily News it will just be a big waste of money if the contractor gets bogged down trying to bring the landmark up to safety and security......

Representative Anthony D. Weiner long advocated re-opening the Statue of Liberty's crown, which has been closed since the 9/11 attacks. Partly due to terrorism fears, the National Parks Service also noted the narrow staircase "violates every fire code in the city of New York and the state of New York and the state of New Jersey." However, Weiner blamed the park service for "a failure of creativity" by not solving the issues through renovation and......

WNBC is reporting someone fell at Liberty Island, where the Statue of Liberty is located: "Park Service officials said the worker fell about 20 feet from a cooling tower and into a pit on Liberty Island." The worker was put on a stretcher and lifted from the pit into a helicopter, which will fly the victim to a hospital in NJ.......

In January 1931, Modern Mechanics magazine featured daredevils, stuntmen, and others with risky odd jobs. Unsurprisingly, many of them flocked to the city, from Madison Square Garden to the Brooklyn Bridge. One of particular interest is Sig Smith, who once walked around the crown of the Statue of Liberty, blindfolded!Everybody has heard of the Statue of Liberty, though not many people realize what a huge object it is. They say that a man can crawl......

Base to torch, Lady Liberty is approximately 70' taller than most of the waves surfer Laird Hamilton rides; yesterday when he paddled around her he declared, "The Statue of Liberty is pretty big. I'm glad it didn't fall on me." Hamilton was in town to launch his new clothing line, Wonderwall, with a jaunt around the Statue of Liberty. Even though he's used to riding the biggest waves in the world, we're guessing the Hudson......

Troy Landwehr, a champion cheese carver (who knew there was such a thing?), took four days to create this lovely Lady Liberty out of what started out as a 1,200 pound hunk of aged cheddar. Despite the fact that the video is essentially a promo for Tracey Ullman's upcoming Showtime series, it's still oddly difficult to turn away. Troy, whose cheese carving is backed by a band in this video, has also carved Mount Rushmore......

The above photo is a living replica of the Statue of Liberty, painstakingly recreated with 18,000 people at Camp Dodge in Des Moines, Iowa. The image is from 1918, and is one of many "living photographs" by Arthur Mole and John Thomas, who attempted to "recover the old image of national identity at the very moment when the United States entered the Great War in 1917." Flash forward to present day, shed some clothes,......