The Kneeling Fireman was commissioned by the Fire Fighters Memorial Foundation of Missouri.  It was at Kennedy Airport where it was in transit from Parma, Italy–where it was cast–to Missouri, when it was diverted temporarily to the front of the Milford Plaza Hotel in Midtown on Sept 17, 2001. It was eventually donated to the City of NY and is now situated in front of the Emigrant Bank building in 43rd Street between Madison Avenue and Fifth Avenue.