I commemorated Columbus Day in 2023 with a photo post of a pigeon perched atop a Christopher Columbus statute at Brooklyn’s Borough Hall. On February 24, 2026, I took a walk in Brooklyn just a day after New York City finished receiving historic snowfall from a blizzard. Before I would happen upon some creative snow figures on that amble, I strolled by the Columbus statute I featured in an article back in 2023. It was not host to a pigeon, but it was host to what I would describe as one-sided snow.

Christopher Columbus statue on top of column in front of Brooklyn Supreme Court at Brooklyn Borough Hall. The ground is covered with white snow. The left side of the culmn and Columbus is covered by snow, but not the right.

The left side of Columbus and the column he nobly stands atop are covered with snow, but the right side is free of snow. Columbus wore the snow well. The statute illustrates which way the high winds were blowing when it was snowing. For reference, you can see where I was standing when I took the Columbus photo in this Open Street Map link. If we needed further proof of the wind direction during the blizzard, I present a second statute on the same plaza, just a bit down in the same direction the snow had been blowing. (I discussed the history of the Columbus statute in my prior post.)

Robert F. Kennedy memorial bust at Brooklyn Borough Hall Park. The ground and left side of the culumn are covered in snow. The snow goes up to the left side of the Kennedy bust's shoulder, but nowhere else.

Here we have a bust of Robert F. Kennedy, who served as United States Attorney General under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson and as a United States Senator representing New York. As we can see just peeking from the snow, the bust was dedicated on November 2, 1972, just over four years after he was tragically assassinated by a Palestinian terrorist during his 1968 presidential bid. You can learn more about the bust on the NYC Parks Website. For our instant purposes, I note that the Kennedy Bust was affected by the snow in the same way as the nearby Columbus Statue, only being hit on the left side. You can see where I was standing to take the photo in this Open Street Map link, in which you can also see the Columbus statute. While RFK was hit by the snow in the same way as Columbus, he seems to have been less affected, with the majority of the snow only falling on the column and the former Attorney General and Senator himself only being touched on one side of his jacket.

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