History, whether good or bad, isn’t going to go down without a fight and Brooklyn Lawmakers are joining the fray. State Senator Diane Savino (D-Coney Island, Staten Island) alongside Senator Jeff Klein (D-Westchester, The Bronx) today submitted over 1,000 signatures to the city’s commission reviewing public art in a bid to save the controversial Christopher Columbus statues from removal at a public hearing in the Bronx earlier today.

Currently, Mayor Bill de Blasio’s Mayoral Advisory Commission on City Art, Monuments and Markers is considering the removal of the statue amid a national drive to remove dozens of controversial statues and monuments across the nation.