After a tedious back and forth with the NYC Parks Department and NYPD officials, an unnamed spokesperson at One Police Plaza has confirmed that a "fixed post" remains outside of the D'Auria-Murphy Triangle, 24 hours a day, seven days a week-- protecting a statue of Christopher Columbus.
 
The two-man unit has been observed on nearly a dozen occasions, at different times, at Adams Place between Crescent Avenue and East 183 Street, over the course of the last several weeks. The post apparently stood firm in the early morning hours of July 26, even as two men were shot and a large crowd was reported to be fighting with police officers at Grote Street and Prospect Avenue, a short distance away. One of the two victims succumbed to their injuries.